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had a very (mail thorax or middle part of his body, if compar’d to the
length and number of his wings 5 which therefore, as he mov’d them ve-
ry (lowly ,so must he move them very weakly. And this last propriety do
we find somewhat observ’d aiso in bigger kind of Flying creatures,Birds 5
so that we lee that the Wisdom and Providence of the All-wise Creator,
is not lesslhewn in these Imall delpicable creatures, F lies and Moths,
which we have branded with a name of ignominy, calling them Vermine,
then in those greater and more remakable animate bodies, Birds.
I cannot here stand to add any thing about the nature of ssying,
though, perhaps, on another occasion, I may say something on that sob-
bed:, it being soch as may deierve a much more accurate examination and
scrutiny then it has hitherto met with 5 For tome* there seems nothing
Wanting to make a man able to ssy, but what may be easily enough sop-
ply’d from the Mechanicks hitherto known, save onely the want of
strength, which the Mufeles of a man seem utterly uncapable of, by rea-
Ibn of their smalneis and texture, but how even strength also may be me-
chanically made, an artificial Muscle so contriv’d,that thereby a man (hall
be able to exert what strength he pleases, and to regulate it also to his
own mind, I may elfewhere endeavour to manifest.
Observ. XLVII. Os the Shepherd Spider, or long teggd
Spider.
THe Carter,Shepherd Spider,or long-legg’d Spider,has, for two parti-
cularities, very few similar creatures that I have met with 5 the first,
which is discoverable onely by the Microjcope^ and is in the first and fe-
cond Figures of the 31. Scheme^ plainly describ’d, is the curious contri-
vance of his eyes, of which (differing from most other Spiders) he has
onely two, and thole plac’d upon the top of a Imall pillar or hillock,riling
out of the middle of the top of its back, or rather the crown of its head,
for they were fix’d on the very top of this pillar (which is about the
heighth of one of the transverse Diameters of the eye, and look’d on in
another posture,appear’d much of the lhape, BCD) The two eyes, • B B,
wereplacedback to back, with the tranlparent parts,or the pupils, look-
ing towards either side, but somewhat more forward then backwards.
C was the column or neck on which they stood, and D the crown of the
head out of which that neck sprung.
Thele eyes,to appearance, feem’d to be of the very lame struseure with
that of larger binocular creatures, feeming to have a very smooth and ve-
ry protuberant Cornea^and in the midst of it to have a very black pupil,
incompassed about with a kind of grey IrZr, as appears by the Figure 5
whether it were able to move these eyes to and fro, I have not obferv’d,
but ’tis not very likely he lhould,the pillar or neck C, feeming to be co-
ver’d and stiffen’d with a crusty (hell 5 but Nature,in probability,has sop*
ply’d
had a very (mail thorax or middle part of his body, if compar’d to the
length and number of his wings 5 which therefore, as he mov’d them ve-
ry (lowly ,so must he move them very weakly. And this last propriety do
we find somewhat observ’d aiso in bigger kind of Flying creatures,Birds 5
so that we lee that the Wisdom and Providence of the All-wise Creator,
is not lesslhewn in these Imall delpicable creatures, F lies and Moths,
which we have branded with a name of ignominy, calling them Vermine,
then in those greater and more remakable animate bodies, Birds.
I cannot here stand to add any thing about the nature of ssying,
though, perhaps, on another occasion, I may say something on that sob-
bed:, it being soch as may deierve a much more accurate examination and
scrutiny then it has hitherto met with 5 For tome* there seems nothing
Wanting to make a man able to ssy, but what may be easily enough sop-
ply’d from the Mechanicks hitherto known, save onely the want of
strength, which the Mufeles of a man seem utterly uncapable of, by rea-
Ibn of their smalneis and texture, but how even strength also may be me-
chanically made, an artificial Muscle so contriv’d,that thereby a man (hall
be able to exert what strength he pleases, and to regulate it also to his
own mind, I may elfewhere endeavour to manifest.
Observ. XLVII. Os the Shepherd Spider, or long teggd
Spider.
THe Carter,Shepherd Spider,or long-legg’d Spider,has, for two parti-
cularities, very few similar creatures that I have met with 5 the first,
which is discoverable onely by the Microjcope^ and is in the first and fe-
cond Figures of the 31. Scheme^ plainly describ’d, is the curious contri-
vance of his eyes, of which (differing from most other Spiders) he has
onely two, and thole plac’d upon the top of a Imall pillar or hillock,riling
out of the middle of the top of its back, or rather the crown of its head,
for they were fix’d on the very top of this pillar (which is about the
heighth of one of the transverse Diameters of the eye, and look’d on in
another posture,appear’d much of the lhape, BCD) The two eyes, • B B,
wereplacedback to back, with the tranlparent parts,or the pupils, look-
ing towards either side, but somewhat more forward then backwards.
C was the column or neck on which they stood, and D the crown of the
head out of which that neck sprung.
Thele eyes,to appearance, feem’d to be of the very lame struseure with
that of larger binocular creatures, feeming to have a very smooth and ve-
ry protuberant Cornea^and in the midst of it to have a very black pupil,
incompassed about with a kind of grey IrZr, as appears by the Figure 5
whether it were able to move these eyes to and fro, I have not obferv’d,
but ’tis not very likely he lhould,the pillar or neck C, feeming to be co-
ver’d and stiffen’d with a crusty (hell 5 but Nature,in probability,has sop*
ply’d