Miscellanea Curiosa, sive Ephemiridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum
Miscellanea Curiosa is a 1691 Latin journal of medical and physical observations issued at Vratislavia by the Leopoldina academy of natural science, written for physicians and natural philosophers. Its pictures are engraved plates and head-pieces: an ornate emblematic roundel of serpents and foliage, geometric construction diagrams with lettered circles and triangles, and a baroque cartouche framing a standing figure, useful to designers for scholarly ornament and diagram layouts.
