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RefNoCLP/12i/71/3
AltRefNoCLP/12i/71 p3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, aorta, cerebral falx, and bone between ventricles of heart by unknown artist
Date[1712]
DescriptionThe first figure shows an aorta of a woman who died of dropsy; the second figure is of a bone from the cerebral falx of a man who died of violent headaches; and the third figure shows a bone from between the ventricles of the heart of a man. These drawings were published as figures 1-3 in Plate IV. Another version of these images can be found in RBO/9/307a.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some anatomical observations'.

Read to the Royal Society on 15 January 1712.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk and ink wash on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialRBO/9/307a
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1713.0038
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 28 (1713), p 281
RelatedRecordCLP/12i/71
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6580Cheselden; William (1688 - 1752)1688 - 1752
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