Micrographia illustrata: or, The microscope explained ... Likewise, a natural history of aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic animals, &c., considered as microscopic objects
George Adams's 1771 London work Micrographia illustrata explains the microscope and surveys microscopic animals and plants, written for a general reading public curious about natural history. Its engraved plates show magnified views of plant tissue cross-sections, rows of tiny cellular detail, and branching hair-like filaments and cilia, with numbered figures and lettered keys. A designer might borrow the dense, diagrammatic linework and the precise numbering and lettering for botanical or scientific layouts.
