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It is well known, my Lady, that people have an insatiable wish for learning. They are indeed instinctively attracted by and forced to wonder at the works and contrivances devised by Nature with utmost cunning. As a consequence of this commendable tendency, people have always honoured the authors of similarly admirable works, have praised them and loved them to the point of giving them divine honours.
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Borelli, G.A. (1989). To the august Queen Christina. In: On the Movement of Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73812-8_1
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