Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a set of medical and natural-philosophy journal volumes issued in 1692 at Vratislavia by the Leopoldina, the German Academy of Natural Scientists, for its learned members and physicians. Its plates are black-and-white copperplate engravings of plant forms, fibrous masses and small natural specimens, drawn with dense hatching and careful shading. A designer could draw on their fine line textures, tangled root and fibre shapes, and the numbered labelled layout of the tables.
