Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica is a 1670 scientific journal published in Lipsiae by the Leopoldina, the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Germanica Naturae Curiosorum, for physicians and natural philosophers. Its pictures are engraved plates: an ornate allegorical title frame with a medallion and emblem, and detailed anatomical and botanical studies of organs, fruit and a long seaweed-like specimen beside a scale bar. A designer might take the dense, precise line work and the decorative cartouche style of the frontispiece for botanical or anatomical layouts.
