Nouveaux memoires sur l'etat present de la Chine
Nouveaux memoires sur l'etat present de la Chine is a 1696 Paris account of China by the Jesuit missionary Louis Le Comte, with plates engraved by Gérard Edelinck and Franz Ertinger for a French readership. Its pictures are fine line engravings of Chinese astronomical instruments: armillary spheres and sundials on ornate stands carved with dragons, set on tiled floors, offering designers a model for dragon-supported ornament and scientific diagram styling.
