On 2/20/04 2:49 PM, in article ,
"snakefiddler" wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"snakefiddler" wrote in message
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Maybe we have a book fairy on ROFF. Let's see, my dream book would
be
Appalachia on Our Minds by Henry Shapiro....

Jan Swammerdam's "A Figure of Man's Miserable Life"........English
translation......please.

Wolfgang
thank you.



In what language was it first published?

Dutch, 1675.

We've got an 18th century German version of the Biblia Naturae (Bibel der
Natur), Wolfgang, but I can't send it to you. :-) You're welcome to stop on
your way to Penns and have a look though.

Here's a neat quote from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (article
author Mary P. Winsor): "Some biographers describe Swammerdam as a mystic,
for he was a follower of a woman who purportedly had spoken with God, and he
saw in the short flight of the mayfly an image of man's own brief
existence."

Bill


Bill