Anatome plantarum. Cui subjungjungitur appendix, iteratas & auctas ejusdem authoris de ovo incubato observationes continens. Regiae societati, Londini ad scientan naturalem promovendam institutae, dicata
Anatome plantarum is a 1675 Latin treatise on plant anatomy by the Italian physician and microscopist Marcello Malpighi, printed in London by J. Martyn and dedicated to the Royal Society. Its plates are copper-engraved botanical and embryological diagrams with lettered keys, mostly fine hatched and stippled linework on a plain page. A designer could take the dense cross-hatching, curling tendril-like forms, and lettered callouts as an early scientific graphic vocabulary for organic patterns.
