Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1687 Latin journal of medical and natural-philosophy reports issued at Vratislavia by the Leopoldina, the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists, for physicians and naturalists. Its plates are copperplate engravings of anatomical and pathological specimens, labelled with lettered keys and figure numbers. The engravings render organs and growths in fine hatching and stippling, with bold tonal modelling and crisp outlines a designer could borrow for organic textures and scientific diagrams.
