The phenomena and order of the solar system
A popular astronomy book by J. P. Nichol, published in Edinburgh by William Tait in 1838, written for general readers learning the layout and motions of the solar system. Its pictures are precise engraved diagrams: concentric orbit rings around a central body, lunar phase sequences drawn as pale crescents and half-discs on black, and a pair of globe-like views of planetary surfaces, plus a sun disc with sunspots. A designer might take the clean, high-contrast black and white geometry of these diagrams for schematic or modernist layouts.
