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Henrici Glareani poetae laureati de geographia liber unus,

Glareanus, Henricus, 1488-1563 · 1530 · Apud Friburgum Brisgaudiae. : Anno. M.D.XXX. Excudebat Ioannes Faber Emmeus Iuliacensis. · 13 pictures

A 1530 Latin geography treatise by the humanist poet Henricus Glareanus, printed at Freiburg im Breisgau by Johannes Faber Emmeus for scholars and students of cosmography. Its pictures are plain geometric diagrams of circles, great-circle lines, and spheres labelled with letters, which a designer could take as clean, schematic line work for infographics or diagrammatic layouts.

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