Plant seeds and leaf growth
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 various impregnated plant seeds viewed under magnification, including:
Figure 324 [upper left]: Reed, Phragmites, referred to by Malpighi as Avena.
Figure 325 [upper centre]: Wheat, Triticum, referred to as Tritico.
Figure 326 [centre left]: Onion, Allium, thistle, Cirsium, tulip, Tulipa, and more, referred to as Caepis sativis, Moly montano and Tulipa.
Figure 327 [centre right]: Pine tree, Pinus, referred to as Pino.
Also, sectional views of early leaf growth from the seed of:
Figure 328 [centre left]: Bean, Phaseolus, referred to as Faba.
Figure 329 [centre]: Pumpkin, Cucurbita, referred to as the same.
Figure 330 [centre right]: Spurge, Euphorbia, referred to as Cataputiae.
Figure 331 and 335 [lower left and right]: Legumes, Fabaceae, referred to as Faba.
Figure 332 [lower left]: Almond, Prunus amygdalus, and cherry tree, Cerasum, referred to as Amygdala and Cerasis respectively.
Figure 333 [lower centre]: Armenian apple tree, Prunus armeniaca, referred to as Pomi Armeniaci.
Figure 334 [lower right]: Walnut tree, Juglans, referred to as Juglande.
Figure 336: Lily, Lilium, Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis, and onion, Allium, referred to as Lilio, Asparago and Sativis caepis.
Inscribed: ‘TAB LIV’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 54 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 324 [upper left]: Reed, Phragmites, referred to by Malpighi as Avena.
Figure 325 [upper centre]: Wheat, Triticum, referred to as Tritico.
Figure 326 [centre left]: Onion, Allium, thistle, Cirsium, tulip, Tulipa, and more, referred to as Caepis sativis, Moly montano and Tulipa.
Figure 327 [centre right]: Pine tree, Pinus, referred to as Pino.
Also, sectional views of early leaf growth from the seed of:
Figure 328 [centre left]: Bean, Phaseolus, referred to as Faba.
Figure 329 [centre]: Pumpkin, Cucurbita, referred to as the same.
Figure 330 [centre right]: Spurge, Euphorbia, referred to as Cataputiae.
Figure 331 and 335 [lower left and right]: Legumes, Fabaceae, referred to as Faba.
Figure 332 [lower left]: Almond, Prunus amygdalus, and cherry tree, Cerasum, referred to as Amygdala and Cerasis respectively.
Figure 333 [lower centre]: Armenian apple tree, Prunus armeniaca, referred to as Pomi Armeniaci.
Figure 334 [lower right]: Walnut tree, Juglans, referred to as Juglande.
Figure 336: Lily, Lilium, Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis, and onion, Allium, referred to as Lilio, Asparago and Sativis caepis.
Inscribed: ‘TAB LIV’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 54 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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