Joblot's Observations (1754-1755)
Plate 2. [Fungal reproductive structures.]
Louis Joblot. Observations d'Histoire Naturelle, Faites Avec le Microscope, Sur un Grand Nombre d'Insectes ... Paris, 1754-55.
Louis Joblot (1645-1723), a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris, combined his interest in science and art through the use of a microscope. Beginning in 1716, he devoted most of his career to exposing the wonders of the microscopic world. Although not published until 1754, the illustrations and text for his Observations on Natural History Made with the Microscope were completed thirty-six years earlier.
from Joblot (1754-55)