Paris Academy Academie Royale des Sciences, Paris. Memoires de L Academie Royale des Sciences. Contenant les ouvrages adoptez par cette academie avant son renouvellement en 1699.
Memoires pour servir l histoire naturelle des animaux.
AP A1656 ME, Special Collections Click on thumbnails for larger images. In this volume, members of the Paris Academy of Sciences presented their findings from a research project begun in 1667. In that year Claude Perrault had recommended that the members of the Academy study animal anatomy in order to understand the functions of organs and parts and their interrelationships. The Academy used empirical evidence gathered from many specimens to construct the anatomical descriptions. Members of the Academy, not artists, produced the drawings in the interest of scientific accuracy.