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[Male gnat, with details of two heads, and two smaller gnats, as seen through a microscope] – Antique Print

[Male gnat, with details of two heads, and two smaller gnats, as seen through a microscope], [published between 1737 and 1738] — antique engraving
[Male gnat, with details of two heads, and two smaller gnats, as seen through a microscope], [published between 1737 and 1738]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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Rather than a whole insect, this plate shows a male gnat at magnification, with separate views of its head and two smaller gnats beside it. It is plate 32 from *Bybel der natuure*, the Dutch edition of the work of Jan Swammerdam, the Leiden naturalist whose microscope studies of insects were largely published after his death in 1680. Herman Boerhaave edited the volumes, which appeared in 1737 and 1738, so the engravings record observations made decades earlier. Swammerdam's precise drawings of insect anatomy helped make entomology a visual science.

Created / published[published between 1737 and 1738]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreScientific illustrations 1730-1740.Engravings 1730-1740.
NotesIllus. in: Bybel der nature : Jan Swammerdam. Leyden : I. Severinus, 1737-1738, plate 32. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 88.
SubjectsFlies--1730-1740. Zoology--Netherlands--Leiden--1730-1740.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan935 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166262

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