Quatremere-Disjonval,(D.B.)
De l'araneologie ou sur la decouverte du rapport constant entre l`Apparition ou la disparation, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d`etendue des toiles et des fils d`Attaches des Araignees des differentes especes... Paris, Fuchs 1797. 1 Bl., 3, 164 S. Brosch. d. Zt. (Rckn. mit Fehlst. u. tls. überkl., Hdeckel. mit Eckabriß, berieb.).
Poggendorff II, 548. Martin-Walter 28394. - Kuriosum über die Abhängigkeit der Netz- u. Fadenproduktion von Spinnen von klimatischen Bedingungen. Eine der frühesten Abh. über die Spinnen. - Breitrandiges Ex., tls. unaufgeschn., tls. etw. fleckig u. leicht angeschmutzt, St.a.T. - So-called nouvelle edition published under the title "De l'Araneologie" and generaly considered the first edition of this curious work of Denis-Bernard Quatremere-Disjonval (1754-1830), a notorious french chemist. He was banished from Paris by Napoleon; he was a member of the French Academy of Science, but was expelled after going bankrupt; he went to Holland, but was imprisoned at Utrecht for his bizarre ideas. In this periode he learned to predict the weather by studying spiders and their webs and predicted cold weather wintin 12 days when Utrecht was besieged by the French in the winter of 1795. The prediction was smuggled from the prison to the French general, who then decided to wait until the waters froze and when they did, marched on the ice with his troops and captured the city. He then released the "araneologist" and soon captured all of Holland.
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