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This engraving is after a drawing by Joris Hoefnagel. It is in the book 'Archetypa studiaque patris (Frankfurt am Main, 1592). At top, the Latin motto taken from Psalm 9:2 reads: I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. In seventeenth-century culture sometimes even the product of natural science and technology were endowed with symbolism. Research on bees in particular was accompanied by symbolism and morality.
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