Metoposcopia liber tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa : cui accessit melampodis de naevis corporis tractatus, graece et latine nunc primum editus
Metoposcopia is a 1658 Paris treatise by the Milanese physician and mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, printed by Thomas Jolly for a learned readership interested in physiognomy and palmistry-like face reading. Its pictures are numbered woodcut-style head studies of men in profile-free frontal bust, with heavy hatching, exaggerated brows and wrinkles, and bald crowns, which a designer could use as a reference for expressive character types and old-master facial caricature.
