Spiders
B H
Genre: | Anecdote |
Subjects: | Entomology, Meteorology, Prognostication, War |
An anecdote relating to Denis B Quatremère D'Isjonval, who, while a prisoner in Holland, advised a French general on the weather on the basis of his observation of the behaviour of spiders. | |
See also: | ML1/8/230a/2 |
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