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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

by Leonardo da Vinci

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The Tarantula.

The bite of the tarantula fixes a man's mind on one idea; that is on the thing he was thinking of when he was bitten.

The Screech-Owl and the Owl.

These punish those who are scoffing at them by pecking out their eyes; for nature has so ordered it, that they may thus be fed.

1245.

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