The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 114

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1880

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Página 61 - ... illustration, which we have only to go into the garden to find. There we may see in abundance what is now upon the screen — the webs of those beautiful geometrical spiders. The radial threads are smooth, like the one you saw a few minutes ago, but the threads that go round and round, are beaded. The spider draws these webs slowly, and at the same time pours upon them a liquid, and still further to obtain the effect of launching a liquid cylinder in space, he, or rather she, pulls it out like...

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