Acta eruditorum. Supplementa. Tomus II., 1696
This is a 1696 supplement volume to the Acta eruditorum, the learned journal of the Leipzig scholarly community, published in Leipzig by Grossius and Gletitschius for scholars and natural philosophers. Its numbered copper-engraved plates show scientific instruments and diagrams, specimen vessels with botanical or mineral inclusions, and medals, amulets and pendants with emblematic figures. A designer could draw on the crisp hatched linework and the tidy plate-numbered layouts for antique scientific diagrams or old-world emblem motifs.
