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Paper, 'Descriptio foetus monstrosi [Description of a monstrous foetus]' by Job Baster

Reference number: L&P/2/153a

Date: 1750

Description

Two pages in Latin and two pages in English. Contains two plates.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Descriptio Fœtus monstrosi sine ullo Sexus Signo; Regali Societai communicata per Job Baster, Acad. Cæsar. et Reg. Soc. Lond. Soc'

Read 28 June 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/153a
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1750
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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Job Baster

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Job Baster, Paper, 'Descriptio foetus monstrosi [Description of a monstrous foetus]' by Job Baster, 1750, L&P/2/153a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_153a/paper-descriptio-foetus-monstrosi-description-of-a-monstrous-foetus-by-job-baster, accessed on 21 January 2025

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