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Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum

Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Germanica Naturae Curiosorum · 1671 · Lipsiae · 70 pictures

This is a 1671 Latin journal of medical and natural-science observations, issued at Leipzig by the Leopoldina academy of natural scientists for physicians and naturalists. Its pictures are small woodcut ornaments framing the text, with a single engraved anatomical plate of a diseased organ with labelled parts, showing how period printers built decorative cartouches and how scientific plates were labelled.

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