| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Miller's emphasis on Peiresc's implicit connection with Gassendi's other biographical subject, Tycho Brahe, is surely correct; the pairing of the antiquarian with the astronomer, both masters of observation, foreshadows the comic debut of such figures as Thomas Nabbes's Horten, an owner of rarities and antiquities, who proudly displays A weatherbeaten stone with an inscription / That is not leg
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