Les Raisons Des Forces Movvantes: Auec diuerses Machines Tant vtilles que plaisantes ...: Traitant De La Fabriqve Des Orgves
Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes is a 1615 treatise on mechanics and machines by Salomon de Caus, printed in French and held by Heidelberg University Library, written for engineers and patrons of garden and court machinery. The pictures shown are a diamond-shaped ornamental panel of interlaced scrollwork, a geometric figure of diagonal lines in a square, and a decorative strapwork header band with the printed caption 'TABLE DES DEFINI', so a designer might borrow the dense scrolling ornament and the crisp geometric diagrams as period framing motifs.
