La perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique, la catoptique, la dioptique
Jean-François Nicéron's La perspective curieuse, printed in Paris by Pierre Billaine in 1638, is a treatise on optics and perspective aimed at scholars and curious readers of the seventeenth century. Its pictures include a dense grotesque ornamental border with a central mascaron and a geometric diagram of concentric arcs and radiating lines labelled with letters, plus a leafy decorated initial, which suggest strong models for symmetrical border frames, radial construction grids and foliate drop caps.
