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Chérubin d'Orléans, père, 1613-1697 · 1671 · A Paris : Chez Thomas Jolly ... : & Chez Simon Benard ... · 31 pictures

A 1671 Paris treatise on optics and lenses by the Capuchin friar Chérubin d'Orléans, printed by Thomas Jolly and Simon Benard for readers of scientific and instrument-making works. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved decorative pieces: horizontal acanthus-scroll friezes, and a square initial C framed with foliate ornament, all in black line on white, showing how dense interlacing scrollwork can fill a narrow band.

Optics -- Early works to 1800 · Optical instruments -- Early works to 1800

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