La dioptriqve ocvlaire, ov, La theoriqve, la positive, et la mechaniqve, de l'ocvlaire dioptriqve en tovtes ses especes
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.






























