31st December 1659
I have resolved to keep a journal, and it will be private. I shall keep it hidden, and it will be mine alone and I shall say whatever I like. So that on days and nights like this it will be company of a sort....
So be...
Despite beginning to go blind at age fifteen, François Huber finds himself increasingly fascinated with science, forcing him to enlist a young servant as his assistant in his obsessive exploration of the world of the bee. Reprint....