De tribvs novis stellis : qvae annis 1572. 1600. 1604. comparuere, libri tres
A 1628 Latin astronomy treatise on three new stars seen in 1572, 1600 and 1604, written by Scipione Chiaramonti and printed at Cesena for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are plain geometric diagrams of circles, centres, chords and labelled points lettered in capitals, showing how observers worked out a star's position and motion; a designer could borrow their clean, precise line work and the ordered rhythm of intersecting radii.
