Giuseppe Valentino Vianelli. Line engraving by I. Rosaspina after A.F. Adrien.

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Giuseppe Valentino Vianelli. Line engraving by I. Rosaspina after A.F. Adrien. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Author of Nuove scoperte intorno le luci notturne dell'acqua marina, spettanti alla naturale storia, Venice 1749, in which he identified fireflies on seaweed as the source of luminescence in the sea. The border of the present portrait shows a larval firefly on the left and some vegetation on the right

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[Italy] : p(er) il Zerletti

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1 print : engraving

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Joseph Valentinus Vianelli medicus clodiensis. Noctilucas mari addixit. A.F. Adrien: delin. I. Rosaspina sculp. "Clodiensis": from Chioggia, near Venice. "Noctilucas mari addixit": he assigned fireflies to the sea

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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 3055.1

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Wellcome Collection 9417i

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"A.F. Adrien:" not identified. It may be the signature of an artist with initials A.F. who was a native of Adria, a port city in the Veneto

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