Cosmographia Petri Apiani,
Cosmographia is a 1553 Paris cosmography textbook by Peter Apian, with additions by Gemma Frisius, printed for students and scholars of astronomy and geography. Its pictures are woodcut diagrams of instruments and celestial models, including a sighting device over a compass-marked arc, a tilted armillary sphere with numbered rings, and a dense astrological wheel with zodiac and planetary symbols, offering a designer ornate circular frameworks, engraved ring geometry, and decorative star and sign motifs.
