Philippi Phinellae, De methoposcopia astronomica de duodecim signis coelestibus.
Philippi Phinellae's De methoposcopia astronomica, printed at Antwerp in 1650 by the Plantin office, is a learned treatise on physiognomy that reads character and fate from lines and markings on the face, linked to the twelve celestial signs. Its woodcut figures show frontal and profile heads of men, each marked with dotted lines and small symbols that correspond to planetary positions and the accompanying Latin text. A designer might take from them the stylised engraved heads, the dense letterpress columns beside the cuts, and the diagrammatic use of dotted guide lines across a face.
