Cosmographia Francisci Mavrolyci Messanensis Sicvli : in tres dialogos distincta, in quibus de forma, situ numerʹoq[ue] tam coelorum q[uam] elementorum, alijsq[ue] rebus ad astronomica rudimenta spectantibus satis disseritur

Maurolico, Francesco, 1494-1575 · 1543 · Venetiis : Apud haeredes Lucʹaeantonij Iuntae Florentini · 10 pictures

A Latin cosmography by the Sicilian mathematician Francesco Maurolico, printed in Venice in 1543 by the heirs of Lucantonio Giunta as three dialogues teaching the rudiments of astronomy to students. The woodcuts are bare geometric diagrams — lettered circles, chords, plumb-line squares, an inscribed hexagon of triangles — usable as line-art motifs, schematic ornament, or period-accurate scientific figures.

Astronomy · Cosmography

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931)