Pomponii Melæ De situ orbis libri tres. : Vnà cum auctario Petri Ioannis Oliuarij Valentini, instauratione totius libelli & castigatione perquam multorum locorum, insertis quoque locis plerísque in eode[m] libello desideratis

Mela, Pomponius, Oliver, Pedro Juan, 16th cent · 1557 · Parisiis, : Apud Iacobum Keruer, in via Iacob[a]ea sub duobus gallis. · 8 pictures

A 1557 Paris edition of Pomponius Mela's ancient geography, De situ orbis, printed by Jacques Keruer and expanded by the Valencian scholar Pedro Juan Oliver for scholars of classical geography. The pictures are simple woodcut diagrams from its geometric teaching sections: a pentagon, a square with a diagonal, a circle with crossed diameters, and an octagon divided into labelled segments. A designer could take their plain, schematic line work and lettered labels as models for minimal technical diagrams.

Geography, Ancient

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