Quote#World
The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table…
Quote byMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne · 1617–1673
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666).
English (original)
The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded
— Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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