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English: Engraving of the electric eel from the surgeon John Hunter's 1775 paper to the Royal Society "An Account of the Gymnotus Electricus" |
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| Source | https://archive.org/details/philtrans01229060/page/n9/mode/2up |
| Author | John Hunter (surgeon), 1775 (drawing); James Roberts (engraving) |
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| current | 14:37, 15 July 2022 | | 2,411 × 945 (333 KB) | Chiswick Chap | complete image as originally drawn |
| 07:58, 7 May 2022 |  | 1,053 × 709 (137 KB) | Chiswick Chap | Uploaded a work by John Hunter (surgeon), 1775 from http://www.thomas-morris.uk/dont-mess-with-an-electric-eel/ with UploadWizard |
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