The prodromus to a dissertation concerning solids naturally contained within solids : laying a foundation for the rendering a rational accompt both of the frame and the several changes of the masse of the Earth, as also of the various productions in the same
Steno's 1671 London edition of his Prodromus, a Latin-to-English treatise on solids enclosed within solids, printed for Moses Pitt and edited by Henry Oldenburg for a natural-philosophy readership. The pictures are a woodcut initial with stylised birds and flowers, a row of crowned heraldic-style ornaments, and a folding plate of geometric crystal faces and hexagonal solids in outline, which a designer might use for ornamental borders or for diagrammatic, measured line work.
