Note 3 — Chapter VIII · THE MANTIS: HER NEST
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Thomas Moffett, Moufet, or Muffet (1553–1604), author of a posthumous Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Teatrum, published in Latin in 1634 and in an English translation, by Edward Topsell, in 1658. Although giving credence to too many fabulous reports, Moffett was acknowledged the prince of entomologists prior to the advent of Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680).—Translator’s Note. ↑