Hug. Grotii Batavi syntagma arateorum: opus poeticae et astronomiae studiosis utilissimum : quo quae continentur versa pagella indicabit
Hugo Grotius's 1600 Syntagma arateorum, printed by the Plantin office in Leiden for students of poetry and astronomy, is an early star atlas that illustrates Aratus's Phaenomena with engraved figures of constellations. The pictures show full-length mythological figures set against blank skies, with the Latin text and captions running around them; a designer could take their clean contour line, the placement of figures within open ground, and the way star points are scattered across the body of the figure.
