Piscium Querelae Et Vindiciae
Piscium Querelae et Vindiciae is a 1708 Latin natural history treatise by Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, a Swiss naturalist, held by Heidelberg University Library and written for scholars studying fossils. Its plates are copperplate engravings of supposed fossil fish, crocodiles and bones, drawn with fine parallel hatching and set against plain page grounds. A designer might take the dense crosshatched textures and the stiff, schematic rendering of sea creatures as period-accurate engraving detail.
