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The mistress of the dame-school at Clermont recognised in the Abbé's protégé her former pupil. Several witnesses also, who could not be positive as to the identity of the two persons, remembered that the youthful count had a peculiar lentil-shaped mole on his back, and a similar mole was found on the back of the claimant.
Petrie suggests that this curious central object may be a royal umbrella with flaps of ox-hide and tiger-skin. That is, lentil-shaped, or a double convex. For the following notes, to which reference numbers will be found in the text, I am indebted to the kindness of Mr.
That lentil-shaped bits of glass would magnify objects was known before the end of the thirteenth century, and from that little fact have come microscopes, telescopes, spectroscopes, and cameras; and from these in turn has come a great part of our present knowledge of natural processes in men, animals, and plants and our comprehension of the cosmos at large.
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