Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences
The Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, issued in France in 1666 by the Académie royale des sciences for its learned members, opens with a decorative headpiece of a central oval cartouche bearing a sunburst emblem, flanked by putti and scrolling foliage. The woodcut linework is dense and symmetrical, offering a designer a model for framing an emblem with winged figures and acanthus-style scrolls in a balanced horizontal band.
