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There he saw many wonderful things -- transparent apiaries, a statue that spoke through a tube, a way-wiser (_i. e._, a kind of pedometer), dials, perspectives, mathematical and magical curiosities, the property or invention of Wilkins or of "that prodigious young scholar Christopher Wren."
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(noun) - An instrument for measuring the distance which a wheel rolls over a road; an odometer or perambulator. --William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889
February 6, 2018