De eclipsi solari anno MDCLIV die XII Augusti, in Europa, a pluribus spectata tubo optico
A Latin Jesuit poem of 1662 printed at Munich by Lukas Straub for the bookseller Johann Wagner, describing the solar eclipse of 12 August 1654 as seen across Europe through a telescope. The engravings show the eclipsed sun as a round disc with a human face, each captioned with a city such as Venice, Madrid, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Constantinople, Vienna, Rome or Paris, around a central bald man's head, and one crisp frontispiece-like plate of the face alone. A designer might take the framed roundel-with-face motif and the spiky radiating corona as a compact device for a moon-face emblem.
