Considerazioni sopra il Discorso del sig. Galileo Galilei intorno alle cose, che stanno in sù l'acqua, o che in quella si muouono ...
This is a 1612 Italian treatise on hydrostatics, printed in Pisa by Giovanni Battista Boschetti and Giovanni Fontani, responding to Galileo Galilei's discourse on bodies floating in water and is aimed at natural philosophers and scholars. The two pictures are small black-ink woodcut ornaments: a plump putto with wings and foliage sitting on a fish-like form, and a decorative initial H wrapped in scrolling vines, leaves and flowers, offering designers compact vignettes and historic letter-ornament patterns for early modern printing.
