Sieve

Frontispiece from S. Le Clerc, Pratique de la géométrie sur le papier et sur le terrain (Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1669).

From Pietro Bongo, Numerorum mysteria (Bergamo, 1614).

Title page. Le Bouquet des plus belles fleurs de l’Eloquence (Paris: Pierre Billaine, 1625).
The authors in the bouquet include Nicolas Coëffeteau, Jean Bertaud, François de Malherbe, Guy de la Brosse, Jean Puget de La Serre, Jaques Davy du Perron, Guillaume du Vair, Vital d’Audiguier.

“Only virtue stays the scythe of time” (or: “Only virtue dulls the blade of time”). From Schooten’s edition of Descartes’s Géométrie. At the end of the volume. Also found in Galen De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus , Theodorico Gerardo Gaudano interprete (Parisiis : Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1530).

“This [the sun] bears away the shadows of the night; that [a book] the shadows of the heart”. Colophon image from: Vossius, De philosophia et philosophorum sectis (The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1658).

“Splendor comes from virtue not gems”. Frontispiece from Canini, Images des héros et des grands hommes (Amsterdam, 1731).

Holding up under misfortune. From: Jeremiah Drexel, Gymnasium patientiæ (Munich: Nicolai Henricus, 1630).

From: B. Keckermann. Operum omnium quae extant tomi duo. Tomus I. Includes: Præcognita philosophiæ, Systema physica … metaphysica compendium. Geneva: Petrus Aubertus, 1614.

Colophon image. From: Reinhardus Lorichius Hadarmardius, De institutione principum loci communes (Frankfurt: Chr. Egenolphus, s.d.).

From: Joannes Poncius (John Ponce). Philosophiæ ad mentem Scoti cursus integer… [4th ed.] Lyon, 1659

Colophon image. From: Blaise de Vigenère, Traité du feu et du sel. Paris: Veuve L’Angelier, 1618.

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