Plate VI from Mitchill’s “The Fishes of New York, Described and Arranged”, published in Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, Volume 1 (1815) (1815). The Mathematical Tetrodon appears top right.
Featured on PDR in the essay Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon
One of the early Republic's great polymaths, New Yorker Samuel L. Mitchill was a man with a finger in many a pie, including medicine, science, natural history, and politics. Dr Kevin Dann argues that Mitchill's peculiar brand of curiosity can best be seen in his study of fish and the attention he gives one seemingly unassuming specimen.
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Plate VI from Samuel L. Mitchill’s “The Fishes of New York, Described and Arranged”
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1815
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Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, Volume 1
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