Antonii Mizaldi Monluciani, de mundi sphœra, seu cosmographia, libri tres : figuris & demonstrationibus illustrati
A 1553 Latin astronomy textbook by the French astrologer Antoine Mizauld, printed in Paris by Guillaume Cavellat for students of cosmography. Its woodcut pictures are plain geometric diagrams of the heavens, the sphere, and shadows, with labelled circles and lettered points. A designer could take from them the clean, schematic line work of early scientific instruction, with rings, stars and shaded hemispheres suited to minimal diagram graphics.
