Les Raisons Des Forces Movvantes: 1
Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes is a 1615 treatise on machines and hydraulics by Salomon de Caus, printed in Frankfurt for a technical readership of engineers and craftsmen. Its pictures are woodcut ornamental panels of interlaced scrolls and volutes, each shaped like a shield or heart, showing dense cross-hatched line work a designer could borrow for strapwork borders, cartouches or decorative corners.
