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RefNoCLP/10ii/17
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Nova literaria physico-medica curiosa' by Johann Georg Steigertahl
Date20 November 1730
DescriptionPaper on physico-medical curiosities, including a description of the cereus peruvianus [Peruvian cactus] which flowered in Nuremburg in 1730. English translation found at CLP/10ii/18.

Subject: Botany

Published in English in Philosophical Transactions as 'Nova literaria physico-medica curiosa; containing a description of the cereus which flowered at Norimberg in the year 1730. Communicated by Jo. Georg. Steigertahl Arch. Reg. Hanor. Prof. Helm. Soc. Honorar. Coll. Med. Lond. & R. S. S. to Sir Hans Sloane Bart. Pr. R. S. & Coll. Med. Lond. Translated from the Latin by T. Stack, M. D'.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 February 1730 [1731?].
LanguageLatin
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0065
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 36 (1730), p 462
RelatedRecordRBO/15/57
CLP/10ii/18
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7403Steigertahl; Johann Georg (c 1667 - c 1740)c 1667 - c 1740
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