Nova scientia inventa da Nicolo Tartalea b
Nova scientia is a 1537 Venetian treatise on ballistics and mechanics by the mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia, printed by Stefano da Sabio for its author. Its pictures are geometric diagrams of a circle with an inscribed square and of a curved trajectory, drawn in clean black line over dense italic text, and a designer could borrow their simple construction lines and labelled points for diagrammatic layouts.
