Renatus des Cartes De homine figuris /
A 1664 anatomy and physiology treatise by René Descartes, edited by Florentius Schuyl, printed in Leiden for a scholarly readership of physicians and natural philosophers. Its pictures are precise engraved and line drawings of the brain seen from above, from the side, and from below, with the cerebellum and pineal gland labelled by letter, useful to a designer seeking clean, diagrammatic anatomical linework.
