Michaelis Havemanni geometria compendiose adornata ...
A Latin geometry textbook by Michael Havemann, published in 1650 and printed for the Frankfurt bookseller Thomas Matthias Götz, aimed at students learning geometric construction. Its pages are hand-drawn plates of numbered geometric figures: circles, polygons, polyhedral nets, and cones and cylinders, drawn in fine brown-black line on warm cream paper. A designer could draw on the clean, diagrammatic logic of these constructions, such as nets of solids, tessellated triangles and concentric rings, for patterns, layouts or instructional graphics.
