An idea of geography and navigation
A navigation textbook by Samuel Newton, printed in London in 1695 by C. Hussey and others, offering practical tables and instruction for mariners and students of geography. Its pages are dense printed numerical grids of latitude, meridian and rhumb values, with running headers, column labels and a few explanatory paragraphs; a designer might take from them the appeal of tabular layout, rule-ruled columns and dense typographic texture for information graphics.
