Antitycho
Antitycho is a 1621 Venetian treatise by the astronomer Scipione Chiaramonti, printed by Evangelista Deuchino, and written as a polemic against Tycho Brahe's ideas about comets. Its pictures are plain geometric diagrams of circles, arcs and lettered points, with sparse capital labels and no shading, so a designer could take a clean, schematic vocabulary of intersecting lines and orbital rings.
