Vlyssis Aldrouandi patricii Bononiensis Musaeum metallicum : in libros iiii distributum

Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 1522-1605?, author, Ambrosini, Bartolommeo, 1588-1657, Bernia, Marco Antonio, active 1638-1661, publisher, Coriolano, Giovanni Battista, -1649, illustrator, Ferroni, Giovanni Battista, 1628?-1678?, printer, Kofoid, Charles A. (Charles Atwood), 1865-1947, former owner. DSI, Bodleian Library, former owner. DSI · 1648 · 43 pictures

Musaeum metallicum is a 1648 Latin natural history treatise on metals, minerals and fossils, compiled from the Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi's collections by Bartolommeo Ambrosini and printed in Bologna by Marco Antonio Bernia. The pictures are plain black-and-white woodcut-style engravings of single specimens shown in three-quarter view with hatched shading, giving a designer clear models of organic and mineral surface textures such as ridged shell, rough pitted crust and layered stone.

Natural history · Metallurgy · Mineralogy · Geology · Fossils · Archaeology

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