“The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded”

Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)

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English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist 1623–1673

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