Nicolai Stenonis Observationes anatomicae quibus varia oris, oculorum et narium vasa describuntur, novique salivae, lacrymarum et muci fontes deteguntur, et novum nobilissimi Bilsii de lymphae motu et usu commentum examinatur et rejicitur
Nicolas Steno's 1662 Latin anatomical treatise, printed at Leiden by J. Chouët, sets out his observations on the vessels of the mouth, eyes and nose, and on the sources of saliva, tears and mucus for a learned medical readership. The copperplate anatomical figures are numbered and lettered for cross-reference with the text, showing dissected heads, glands, ducts and tissue cross-sections in fine hatched line. A designer might take their precise, diagrammatic labelling and dense cross-hatching as models for scientific schematics, and the woodcut tailpiece of a flower-wrapped vessel as ornament.
