The anatomy of vegetables begun : with a general account of vegetation founded thereon
Nehemiah Grew's 1672 London treatise The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, printed for the bookseller Spencer Hickman, presents early microscopic study of plant structure to natural philosophers and botanists of the Royal Society circle. Its plates show magnified plant tissues as precise engraved diagrams: concentric rings, radiating fibres, cellular honeycomb patterns, and branching vessels drawn in fine parallel hatching. A designer could take from them the appeal of dense radial linework and organic cell grids as pattern sources.
