Miscellanea curiosa, sive, Ephemeridum medico-physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae curiosorum
Miscellanea curiosa is a 1688 medical and natural-history journal issued at Nuremberg by E. Streck for the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, a German society of physicians and naturalists. Its pictures include a decorative floral ornament printed at the head of articles and numbered anatomical plates of organs and specimens drawn in fine pen-and-ink hatching on cream paper. A designer might take from the ornament a symmetrical, scrolling botanical border, and from the plates a restrained engraved line style suited to scientific diagrams.
