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Recreatio mentis et oculi is a 1684 Latin treatise on shells by the Jesuit naturalist Filippo Buonanni, printed in Rome at the Varesi press for readers interested in natural history and collecting. Its engraved plates show shells drawn in fine parallel hatching with numbered figures, several set in pairs or groups on a plain ground. A designer might take the dense crosshatching and the clean outline of each spiral form as a model for technical line drawing, or for patterned surfaces built from banded ridges.
