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“Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be abl…” — Vitruvius
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
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