Plant seeds
Date
1675
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Biologist
Object type
Library reference
54269
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 362 mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 310mm
width (plate): 217mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 310mm
width (plate): 217mm
Subject
Description
Sectional studies of seeds of various plant species in different stages of development, viewed under magnification. Including:
Figure 233 [upper row]: Seed of the almond tree, Prunus amygdalus, referred to by Malpighi as Amygdalo.
Figure 234 [central row]: Seed of the apple tree, Malus domestica, referred to as Pomo.
Figure 235 [lower left]: Seed of the pear tree, Pyrus, referred to as Piri.
Figure 236 [central row]: Seed of the cherry, Cerasum and plum tree Prunum, referred to as Cerasorum and Prunorum respectively.
Inscribed: ‘Tab. XXXVIII’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 38 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum; cui subjungitur Appendix […] (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Figure 233 [upper row]: Seed of the almond tree, Prunus amygdalus, referred to by Malpighi as Amygdalo.
Figure 234 [central row]: Seed of the apple tree, Malus domestica, referred to as Pomo.
Figure 235 [lower left]: Seed of the pear tree, Pyrus, referred to as Piri.
Figure 236 [central row]: Seed of the cherry, Cerasum and plum tree Prunum, referred to as Cerasorum and Prunorum respectively.
Inscribed: ‘Tab. XXXVIII’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 38 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum; cui subjungitur Appendix […] (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Object history
Anatome Plantarum was a much-anticipated work and, along with Nehemiah Grew FRS (1641-1712), earned Malpighi acclaim as founder of the microscopic study of plant anatomy.
His research was encouraged and supervised by the Royal Society, as evidenced by correspondence between him and the then-Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (1619-1677) in the 1660s and 1670s [MS/103/1]. An abstracted version of his work in this area was first read at a Society meeting on 7 December 1671 [JBO/4, pp.216-217]. The full manuscript of Anatome Plantarum, together with the frontispiece artwork and these plates, was received and read on 28 January 1674/75 [MS/103/1-2].
It was ordered for printing by the Society’s printer John Martin in June 1675 [CMO/1/221]. The published work consists of the text of Anatome Plantarum, De ovo incubato, and 61 plates illustrating each [54 and 7 respectively]. A second part was sent by Malpighi to the Society in 1678 and published in 1679 as Anatomes plantarum pars altera [54271].
His research was encouraged and supervised by the Royal Society, as evidenced by correspondence between him and the then-Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (1619-1677) in the 1660s and 1670s [MS/103/1]. An abstracted version of his work in this area was first read at a Society meeting on 7 December 1671 [JBO/4, pp.216-217]. The full manuscript of Anatome Plantarum, together with the frontispiece artwork and these plates, was received and read on 28 January 1674/75 [MS/103/1-2].
It was ordered for printing by the Society’s printer John Martin in June 1675 [CMO/1/221]. The published work consists of the text of Anatome Plantarum, De ovo incubato, and 61 plates illustrating each [54 and 7 respectively]. A second part was sent by Malpighi to the Society in 1678 and published in 1679 as Anatomes plantarum pars altera [54271].
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