Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1688 periodical of medical and natural philosophy issued at Vratislavia by the Leopoldina academy of natural researchers, written for physicians and naturalists. Its plates are copperplate engravings of anatomical specimens, fish, plants, bulbs, and mineral or organic growths, each figure labelled with letters and page references. A designer could take their crisp hatched shading and precise, diagrammatic labelling as a model for scientific illustration.
