Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis...
Turris Babel is a 1679 Latin folio by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, printed by the Janssonio-Waesbergiana house and addressed to learned readers interested in ancient history and the Tower of Babel. Its pictures are engraved plates and decorative headpieces: one shows a looped framed emblem, another a circular wheel diagram with radiating segments and figures around its rim, and the others show a plain initial letter and a dense grid of ornamental panels with inscriptions, which a designer could draw on for symmetrical framing and geometric ornament.
