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Jul. 31st, 2007 05:27 pmThere are seven principal genera of things: air, sleep, exercise, food, drink, medication, and preservative.
There are fifteen species: air, sleep, exercise, bread, meat, milk, eggs, fish, oil, salt, water, figs, bitter-rue, grapes, and strong onions.
Preparatives are also fifteen: fire, ashes, the bath, water, the stew-pan, the frying-pan, the spit, the gridiron, the pestle, the blade of the knife and back of it, the grater, parsley, rosemary, and laurel.
(Girolamo Cardano, The Book of My Life, Ch. 8, "Manner of Life")
There are fifteen species: air, sleep, exercise, bread, meat, milk, eggs, fish, oil, salt, water, figs, bitter-rue, grapes, and strong onions.
Preparatives are also fifteen: fire, ashes, the bath, water, the stew-pan, the frying-pan, the spit, the gridiron, the pestle, the blade of the knife and back of it, the grater, parsley, rosemary, and laurel.
(Girolamo Cardano, The Book of My Life, Ch. 8, "Manner of Life")