Novae motuum coelestium ephemerides Brandenburgicae, annorum LX, incipientes ab anno 1595, & desinentes in annum 1655, calculo duplici luminarium, Tychonico & Copernicaeo, reliquorum planetarum posteriore elaboratae, & varijs diversarum nationum calendarijs accomodatae : cum introductione hac pleniore, in qua chronologica, astronomica & astrologica ex fundamentis ipsis tractantur
An early seventeenth-century astronomical and astrological almanac by David Origanus, printed in 1609 at Frankfurt an der Oder for use by readers in Brandenburg and neighbouring lands. Its pictures are letterpress horoscope charts: square or diamond-shaped nativity diagrams with ruled lines, zodiac glyphs, planetary symbols and handwritten-looking Latin captions. A designer might take the dense geometric grid, the signs and the typeset Latin labels as a source of ornamental patterns and early-modern diagram style.
