Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes is a French popular-science dialogue by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in Paris in 1766 by the Chez les Libraires associés and written for general readers curious about astronomy. The single picture is a bookplate-style engraved coat of arms, with a shield bearing a diagonal band flanked by two griffin-like supporters and a crest above, printed on a pale foxed page inside a worn wooden board. A designer might take from it the restrained symmetry of heraldic composition and the way a central emblem sits within a margin frame.
