Pratique de chymie, divisée en quatre parties...avec un avis sur les eaux minerales
A 1671 French chemistry manual by Sébastien Matte La Faveur, printed in Montpellier by Daniel Pech, written as a practical guide for chemists and physicians of its day. Its engravings show laboratory apparatus in plain outline: a brick-built furnace with a sealed dome, a stepped tower still with a glass alembic, and a flask set over a sand bath, each labelled with letters for keying to the text. A designer might take the orderly lettered diagrams, the hatched brickwork and the checkered floors as a model for technical line illustration.
