“The Spider, Flye and Ant, being tender dissipable substances falling
   into amber are therein buoyed, finding therein both a Death, and
   Tombe, preserving them better from Corruption than Regal
   Monument.”
   Francis Bacon (1561-1626) describing amber inclusions in his
   
Histories of Life and Death.
“If thou couldst but speak, little fly, how much more we would know
   about the past.”
   Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) of Königsberg.
Lectures:   I, II, III
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