Savants du XVIIIe siècle : Newton, Leibniz, D'Alembert, Euler, Bernouilli, Fontenelle, Linné, Boerhaave, Haller, Spallanzani, Jussieu, Réaumur, Buffon, Condorcet, Rouelle, Lavoisier
Savants du XVIIIe siècle is an 1870 French popular science book by Louis Figuier, published in Brussels and Paris by Librairie Internationale and A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, for general readers interested in eighteenth-century scientists. Its wood-engraved plates, printed sideways on the page, show scholars in period dress at tables, in study rooms, and in crowded public gatherings, with an early balloon in one scene. A designer might take the detailed crowd groupings, interior furnishings, and tonal hatching as reference for historical period scenes.
