Controversiae de cometarvm quiete, loco boreali sine occasu, parallaxi Aristotelea, sede caelesti, & exacta theoria peripatetica : in quibus prima nemesis meas ad Aristotelem interpretationes ab appositionibus cuiusdam mathematici liberat, alienasque ab eodem intrusas radicitus euellit : ex rei natvra, ex Aristotelis doctrina, & ex astronomiae fundamentis omnia demonstrans.
A 1625 Latin treatise on comets by the Italian philosopher Fortunio Liceti, printed in Venice by Giorgio Valentino for scholars of Aristotelian natural philosophy and astronomy. Its pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments: a square frame of acanthus scrollwork enclosing a leafy initial, a larger decorated capital D with figures and foliage, and a running border of scrolls, useful for designers seeking early printed ornament and decorative letterforms.
