Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21729

    Fossilised wood

    Date
    1637
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    R64776
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 233mm
    width (plate): 169mm
    height (page): 280mm
    width (page): 198mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > fossil
    Description
    Five studies of fossilised wood.

    Inscribed with the plate number ‘12’ and individual figures ‘H, I, L, M, N’.

    Plate 12 to Trattato del Legno Fossile Minerale Nuovamente Scoperto [Treatise of the newly discovered fossilised mineralised wood] by Francesco Stelluti (1637)

    Francesco Stelluti (1577-1652), Italian naturalist, was a founding member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
    Associated place
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          > Italy
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