Lo specchio ustorio overo trattato delle settioni coniche et alcuni loro mirabili effetti intorno al lume, caldo, freddo, suono e moto ancora ...
A 1632 Italian treatise on conic sections by Bonaventura Cavalieri, printed by Clemente Ferroni, aimed at mathematicians and students of optics and mechanics. Its pages are framed geometric diagrams numbered as figures, showing construction lines, labelled points and curves drawn with plain black strokes on cream paper, with a designer able to draw on the clean, systematic layout of labelled plates.
