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Jonathan Swift1667–1745

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.

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Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5

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