The skeletons of two foetuses, two and five months old, demonstrating the development of ossification. Engraving, 1686.

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[1686]
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32183i
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The skeletons of two foetuses, two and five months old, demonstrating the development of ossification. Engraving, 1686. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In these two foetal skeletons, cartilaginous areas are marked by darker areas of ink. Additional figures of bones are the sphenoid bone of the skull (figure 3), the second cervicle vertebra and the atlas of the spine (figures 6-7) and, at the upper left, the temporal bone of the skull (figure 4)

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[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]

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1 print : engraving ; image 14.5 x 8.2 cm

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Bears plate number: Tab. XLVII; page and volume number

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Wellcome Collection 32183i

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The forty-eighth of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686. This plate is from the Latin edition that appeared the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. In the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume, the figures of this plate are described as after those published by Theodor Kerckring

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