Mirror of Literature,  9 (1827), 20.

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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