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... that | • ... biologist and physician Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 29 November 1694) discovered (via microscopy) that invertebrates do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called tracheae; and that his study of plants led him to conclude that plants had tubules similar to those he saw in insects like the silk worm (using his microscope, he probably saw the stomata, through which plants exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen)? | ||
• ... that '''''[[Levity's Rainbow]]''''' is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian? | |||
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• ... biologist and physician Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 29 November 1694) discovered (via microscopy) that invertebrates do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called tracheae; and that his study of plants led him to conclude that plants had tubules similar to those he saw in insects like the silk worm (using his microscope, he probably saw the stomata, through which plants exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen)?
• ... that Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian?