Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1684 medical and natural philosophy journal issued at Breslau (Vratislavia) by the Leopoldina, the German Academy of Natural Scientists, for physicians and naturalists. Its copperplates show dissected anatomy, plant galls and fruits, and mineral crystal clusters, drawn in fine parallel hatching with numbered figure labels. A designer might borrow the dense crosshatching and the tidy labelled-specimen plate layout for botanical or scientific diagrams.
