Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a learned periodical issued in 1686 at Vratislavia (Breslau) by the Leopoldina, the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists, for physicians and naturalists who reported observations. Its plates are engraved anatomical and natural-history figures, with lettered keys and folio numbers. A designer might take from them the precise, labelled scientific diagram style: thin hatched line, cut-away views of organs and vessels, and botanical sprigs drawn with clean outlines and captions.
