Sol elliptic: hoc est nouum & perpetuum solis contrahi soliti phaenomenon, quodnouiter inuentum
Sol elliptic, a 1615 astronomical treatise by Christoph Scheiner published in Augsburg, written for scholars and observers of sunspots. Its pages are dense printed tables of solar observation with ruled columns of figures, headed by small capitals and a university library seal on the title page. For a designer, the ruled tables and bold condensed capitals offer a sober early-modern scientific layout.
