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common objects of nature, but drawn .with exceptional skill and 

 minute and faithful accuracy Some few of these drawings reveal 

 enlarged details which would have been hardly distinguishable 

 to the unaided eye. These remarkable figures are stated to 



Fig. 34. — Fabio Colouua. From his botanical work published in 1606. 



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