Of insects Johannes Goedaert ; done into English and methodized with the addition of notes ; the figures etched upon copper by Mr. Fr Place ...

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Of insects Johannes Goedaert ; done into English and methodized with the addition of notes ; the figures etched upon copper by Mr. Fr Place ...
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Goedaert, Johannes, 1617-1668.
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York :: Printed by John White for M.L.,
1682.
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Insects -- Early works to 1800.
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"Of insects Johannes Goedaert ; done into English and methodized with the addition of notes ; the figures etched upon copper by Mr. Fr Place ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41365.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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Number. 6.

The Catterpillar of the 61st. Table, feeds only on the Herbe Calaminha, it is alwayes wet, and leaves a shine∣ing slimy tract after it, where it has, crept like a Snaile: its a fearfull and timerous Animall, and hides it selfe under the leaves of Mint, and often changes its station, it feeds ith night, but never ith Day time, and with its body in an erect posture, as one that is very circumspect and wattchfull to avoid danger: when it goes, it makes hast.

The Titmise, or little Birds (Pari) devower these Insects, and therefore they seldom appear, and are not to be driven from the places they hide themselves in, but by violence.

The Catterpillar Figured in the Table, abstained from meat the 15th. of October, and made it selfe a little house of sand and slime, and loosing its colour it changed the 26th. of March, as is Figured in the Table, and the 13th. of Iune, came forth a Butterfly very notably marked with spots, which after 8 Days fasting dyed.

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I conceive there is but little difference betwixt the Saliva of Insects, and that of Spiders, Snailes, and Catterpillars, being very much akin. The reason why the Spiders and Cat∣terpillars, for me the Thread of their Saliva, and the Snail not, is very probably, the Organs or Pipes, through which this juice passes, which are not given to the Snaile.

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