Gio. Paolo Gallvcci ... Della fabrica et vso di diversi stromenti di astronomia, et cosmografia, oue si uede la somma della teorica, et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze
A 1598 Venetian treatise by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci on the construction and use of astronomical and cosmographical instruments, printed by Roberto Meietti for students and practitioners of mathematics and navigation. The woodcuts show sundials, astrolabe-like graduated plates, a zodiac ring on a base, and a geometric diagram with horizon and compass lines, drawn in fine black line with dense hatching a designer could borrow for technical diagrams and scientific ornament.





























