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Re: Plath bubble sextant on ebay (C&P versus Plath)
From: UNK
Date: 2015 Mar 22, 18:10 -0700
From: UNK
Date: 2015 Mar 22, 18:10 -0700
Werner,
According to Duden, the namefor the insect indeed derives from the Latin word for spirit level. As is to be expected, it was codified by Linnaeus but he was not the one to coin the name. German Wikipedia has more details.
http://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/libelle
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libellen
Beste Gruesse,
Herbert Prinz
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