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Petiver

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He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."

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Petiver··on Tycho Brahe, Astronomical Instruments (1598)

Brahe, incidentally, was born on this day in 1546: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe