De homine
De homine is a 1662 Latin physiology treatise by the philosopher René Descartes, published in Leiden by Petrus Leffen and Franciscus Moyardus for scholars of anatomy and natural philosophy. Its pictures are fine black-line engravings of the brain in side section, with the cerebellum, optic nerve and pineal gland labelled by letters and drawn with dense hatching. A designer might take from them the precise, diagrammatic linework and the way shading describes folded, organic form.
