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The Grand Duke Ferdinando II in Florence, Italy chose Nicolaus
Steno (above) to dissect a great white shark.

dedicated to King Charles II of England, he said, “That oth-
ers of these Shells, according to the nature of the substances
adjacent to them, have, by a long continuance in that posture,

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