Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux is a 1676 Paris anatomy and zoology work by Claude Perrault, printed by the Imprimerie royale for natural historians and scholars of comparative anatomy. Its pages show engraved anatomical plates of animals, each with a lettered key listing the labelled parts beneath a title such as the explanation of the figure of the otter, dromedary, porcupine or beaver. A designer could take the crisp, systematic lettering and the precise line-engraved anatomical diagrams as models for technical scientific layouts.
