Appe[n]dix matheseos in Margarita[m] philosophica[m] .

Reisch, Gregor, -1525 · 1512 · [Strasbourg] : Per ... Joannem Grüninger ex Argenterato veteri · 31 pictures

This is a 1512 encyclopedia printed in Strasbourg by Joannem Grüninger, compiled by Gregor Reisch as a mathematics appendix to his philosophical handbook for students and scholars. Its pages mix woodcut diagrams with dense printed type: a scholarly allegorical figure group, a folding-style instrument drawing with a quadrant and scales, a plain geometric right-angle figure with a labelled gnomon, and a long numbered scale with diagonal lines. A designer might take its clean, hand-ruled geometric linework and its compact label-and-scale layouts.

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