La geometria del compasso
La geometria del compasso is a geometry treatise by Lorenzo Mascheroni, published in 1797 by the heirs of Pietro Galeazzi, most likely for students and practitioners of drawing and mathematics. Its two small woodcut vignettes show a tray-like arrangement of drawing instruments, a bound book with a rosette emblem, and a sphere-like globe beside rolled tools, and a basket of fruit and foliage on a carved pedestal; a designer could take from them the compact, bordered vignette format and the crosshatched, slightly rough line of early Italian printed ornament.
