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...Some of the credit must also go to an American called Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth from Philadelphia, who, in 1852, patented a hive with vertically set frames for honeycomb....
...(Lorenzo de’ Medici was given one about 20 years before the painting was made, probably by the Egyptian sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbay, and the artists would likely have seen drawings of it.)...
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