Prodomo apologetico alli studi chircheriani
A 1677 Amsterdam scholarly volume by Gioseffo Petrucci, published by the Janssonius-Waesberg firm, defending the scientific work of Athanasius Kircher for learned readers. The pictures are engraved plates: one carries a decorative cartouche with cherubs and a Latin title block, the other a geometric diagram of a parabolic mirror with labelled rays and Latin text. A designer could draw on the ornate baroque cartouche framing and the precise line-engraved diagrams of optics.
