[Scientific instruments from Laputa] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Scientific instruments from Laputa]
Subject: Mathematical Instruments; Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Laputa; England
Description: Here we see a variety of mathematical instruments that were used on Laputa. This image comes at the beginning of chapter four, in which Gulliver leaves Laputa to travel to Balnibarbi, because the only things that the Laputans were interested in was mathematics and music, neither of which Gulliver was particularly interested nor skilled in. The same image appears in the 1839 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Vignettes
Identifier: mta:21686
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843); Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder Vol. II. Vignettes by Grandville (1843)
Image: mta_21686_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Mathematical Instruments; Scholars; Satire; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures