Cosmopolitae historia naturalis : comprehendens humani corporis atomiam & anatomicam delineationem, ab ipsis primis foetus rudimentis in utero, usque ad perfectum & adultum statum, lumine praeclaro generationem hominis & efformationem exhibens, dein usum & structuram omnium valorum in eodem perfecto demonstrans
A 1686 Latin anatomy and embryology treatise by Anthony Everaerts, printed at Leiden in the Netherlands, covering human generation from the womb to adulthood. The first picture is a small woodcut of an armillary-style sphere of narrow rings, and the frontispiece shows a draped female allegory with a child, a skull and a reclining figure beside a tree, under a Latin title. Designers could take the spherical ring diagram as a stylised cosmic emblem and the allegorical frontispiece composition for classical framing.
