Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1676 natural history journal issued in Leipzig by the Leopoldina, the German Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists, for its learned membership. Its plates are engraved botanical and natural history studies of plants, galls and insects, drawn with fine hatching and labelled with letters and Latin captions. A designer could take from them the precise linework and pale tonal shading of early scientific specimen drawing, suited to botanical or antique labelling motifs.
