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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
53
The
Empress
having
hitherto
spent
her
time
in
the
Examination
of
the
Bird-
Fish-
Worm-
and
Ape-
men,
&c.
and
received
several
Intelligences
from
their
several
imployments;
at
last
had
a
mind
to
divert
her
self
after
her
serious
Discourses,
and
therefore
she
sent
for
the
Spider-men,
which
were
her
Mathematicians,
the
Lice-men
which
were
here
Geometricians,
and
the
Magpie-
Parrot-
and
Jackdaw-men,
which
were
her
Orators
and
Logicians.
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:
Whether
they
did
ever
square
the
Circle,
I
cannot
exactly
tell,
nor
whether
they
could
make
imaginary
points
and
lines;
but
this
I
dare
say,
That
their
points
and
lines
were
so
slender,
small
and
thin,
that
they
seem'd
next
to
Imaginary.
The
Mathematicians
were
in
great
esteem
with
the
Empress,
as
being
not
onely
the
chief
Tutors
and
Instructors
in
many
Arts,
but
some
of
them
excellent
Magicians
and
Informers
of
spirits,
which
was
the
reason
their
Characters
were
so
abstruse
and
intricate,
that
the
Emperess
knew
not
what
to
make
of
them.
There
is
so
much
to
learn
in
your
Art,
said
she,
that
I
can
neither
spare
time
from
other
affairs
to
busie
my
self
in
your
profession;
nor,
if
I
could,
do
I
think
I
should
ever
be
able
to
understand
your
Imaginary
points,
lines
and
figures,
because
they
are
Non-beings.
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