Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London is a learned journal issued by the Royal Society in London from 1683, written for natural philosophers and scientific readers. Its plates are numbered engraved figures of natural specimens, including fibrous plant tissue cross-sections, marine fossils and shells, and anatomical or mineral details. A designer might take their dense hatched linework, tidy figure labels and scattered specimen arrangements as a model for scientific diagram layouts.
