A mirror for mathematiques: : a golden gem for geometricians: a sure safety for saylers, and an auncient antiquary for astronomers and astrologians. Contayning also an order howe to make an astronimicall instrument, called the astrolab, vvith the vse thereof. Also a playne and most easie instruction for erection of a figure for the 12. houses of the heauens. A work most profitable for all such as are students in astrenomie, & geometrie, and generally most necessarie for all learners in mathematicall artes. The contents of which booke you shall find in the next page.
A Mirror for Mathematiques is a 1587 London treatise by R. T. (Robert Tanner), printed by J.C. and sold at Paul's Churchyard, aimed at students of astronomy, geometry and navigation, and explaining how to build and use an astrolabe. The pictures are crisp black-line woodcut diagrams: a celestial sphere with zodiac signs and star names set in concentric rings, a dial-like circle with a sun face and the date 1587, and two ornamental borders. A designer could draw on their radiating compass-like geometry and dense circular lettering for astronomical or vintage navigational graphics.
