Recreatio mentis, et oculi : in obseruatione animalium testaceorum curiosis naturæ inspectoribus Italico sermone prim um proposita
Recreatio mentis, et oculi is a 1684 Latin-titled natural history book on shells by Filippo Buonanni, a Jesuit scientist, printed in Rome for curious observers of nature. Its pictures are numbered copperplate engravings of shells in fine parallel hatching and cross-hatching, with soft cast shadows beneath each specimen, useful to a designer for precise linear shading and organic spiral forms.
