Henrici Glareani Helvetii, poetae laureati de geographia liber unus
A 1534 Venetian geography treatise by the Swiss humanist poet Henricus Glareanus, printed by Giovanni Antonio de Nicolini da Sabbio at the request of Melchior Sessa for scholars studying cosmography. Its pictures are small woodcut diagrams of circles, dividing lines, and instruments, plain and schematic, offering a designer simple geometric motifs and early scientific line drawing.












