Flower reproductive organs
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 views of the ovaries and ovules of various plant species’ flowers viewed under magnification, including:
Figure 254 [upper left]: Shepherd’s purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, referred to by Malpighi as Bursae pastoris.
Figure 255 [upper centre]: Pennycress, Thlaspi arvense, referred to as Thlaspi.
Figure 256 [upper right]: An unidentified species referred to as Lagopus.
Figure 257 [centre left]: Honey flower, Melianthus major, referred to as Melanthii.
Figure 258 [centre right]: Hyacinth, Hyacinthus, referred to as Mattioli hyacintho.
Figure 259 [lower left]: An unidentified species referred to as Gittago.
Figure 260 [lower centre]: Flax, Linum usitatissimum, referred to as Lino.
Figure 261 [lower right]: Mallow, Malva, referred to as the same.
Inscribed: ‘Tab XLV’ in top right-hand corner.
Table 45 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 254 [upper left]: Shepherd’s purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, referred to by Malpighi as Bursae pastoris.
Figure 255 [upper centre]: Pennycress, Thlaspi arvense, referred to as Thlaspi.
Figure 256 [upper right]: An unidentified species referred to as Lagopus.
Figure 257 [centre left]: Honey flower, Melianthus major, referred to as Melanthii.
Figure 258 [centre right]: Hyacinth, Hyacinthus, referred to as Mattioli hyacintho.
Figure 259 [lower left]: An unidentified species referred to as Gittago.
Figure 260 [lower centre]: Flax, Linum usitatissimum, referred to as Lino.
Figure 261 [lower right]: Mallow, Malva, referred to as the same.
Inscribed: ‘Tab XLV’ in top right-hand corner.
Table 45 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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