Dissection of an eye
Date
1613
Creator
Theodor Galle (1571 - 1633, Flemish) , Engraver
After
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640, Flemish) , Draughtsman
Object type
Library reference
RCN 24525
Material
Technique
Subject
Description
Illustration from the title page of the first book of Opticorum libri sex (Six Books of Optics) by Flemish mathematician and physicist François d'Aguilon (1567-1617). The vignette, engraved after an original drawing by Peter Paul Rubens shows five putti, male childlike angels, and a man dissecting the eyeball of a cyclops.
The robed male figure is seen observing the dissection as one of the putti cuts into it with a knife. Another putto is seen inspecting the cavity on the cyclops’s head where the eye was removed from. A variety of dissection tools can be seen by the head towards the right of the image.
François d'Aguilon (1567-1617), Flemish mathematician and physicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The robed male figure is seen observing the dissection as one of the putti cuts into it with a knife. Another putto is seen inspecting the cavity on the cyclops’s head where the eye was removed from. A variety of dissection tools can be seen by the head towards the right of the image.
François d'Aguilon (1567-1617), Flemish mathematician and physicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.