Mosaicall philosophy: grounded upon the essentiall truth or eternal sapience
A 1659 London treatise by the physician and mystic Robert Fludd, printed for H. Moseley, setting out a cosmology grounded in scripture and occult ideas of magnetism. The two pictures are small woodcut diagrams set within the printed text, one showing a stone-shaped body with a cross-bar marker above a larger sphere, the other a sequence of lettered, segmented ovoid forms labelled A, B and C. A designer might take from them the spare, schematic line work of 17th-century technical woodcuts, with dense hatching used to model solid curved volumes.
