Universalis cosmographiae elementa in Collegio Neapolitano S. Jesu A viris Nobilibus demonstrata
A 1688 Latin cosmography textbook by Niccolò Partenio Giannettasio, printed in Naples for noble students at the Jesuit college there. Its pages are black-and-white engraved plates of geometric diagrams: circles of horizon and meridian, sky maps with scattered star dots, and a globe with ships, arranged in numbered figures. A designer might take the clean rule-drawn circles, dotted star fields and compass-like diagrams as a model for technical line work and celestial pattern.
