The cosmographical glasse, conteinyng the pleasant principles of cosmographie, geographie, hydrographie, or nauigation.
The Cosmographical Glasse is a 1559 English treatise on cosmography, geography and navigation, written by William Cuningham and printed in London by John Day for readers of the period. Its diagrams are geometric and astronomical: a circle divided by axes with lettered points, dark moons with ringed faces set around a sphere, and a half-shaded disc with stars marking the sky. A designer might draw on their clean compass-like linework and the old cosmic emblems for scientific or celestial motifs.
