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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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First
of
all
they
shewed
the
Empress
a
gray
Drone-flye,
wherein
they
observed
that
the
greatest
part
of
her
face,
nay,
of
her
head,
consisted
of
two
large
bunches
all
cover'd
over
with
a
multitude
of
small
Pearls
or
Hemispheres
in
a
Trigonal
order:
Which
Pearls
were
of
two
degrees,
smaller
and
bigger;
the
smaller
degree
was
lowermost,
and
looked
towards
the
ground;
the
other
was
upward,
and
looked
sideward,
forward
and
backward:
They
were
all
so
smooth
and
polished,
that
they
were
able
to
represent
the
image
of
any
object,
the
number
of
them
was
in
all
14000.
After
the
view
of
this
strange
and
miraculous
Creature,
and
their
several
observations
upon
it,
the
Empress
asked
them,
What
they
judged
those
little
Hemispheres
might
be?
They
answered,
That
each
of
them
was
a
perfect
Eye,
by
reason
they
perceived
that
each
was
covered
with
a
Transparent
Cornea,
containing
a
liquor
within
them,
which
resembled
the
watery
or
glassie
humor
of
the
Eye.
To
which
the
Emperess
replied,
That
they
might
be
glassie
Pearls,
and
yet
not
Eyes;
and
that
perhaps
their
Microscopes
did
not
truly
inform
them.
But
they
smilingly
answered
her
Majesty,
That
she
did
not
know
the
vertue
of
those
Microscopes:
for
they
never
delude,
but
rectifie
and
inform
the
Senses;
nay,
the
World,
said
they,
would
be
but
blind
without
them,
as
it
has
been
in
former
ages
before
those
Microscopes
were
invented.
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