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fox or lynx founded in Rome in
The church scented danger to the faith in everything which related to natural science, and founded certain secret associations, especially in Italy; the Accademia Degli Lyncei, so called from its seal, which bore the image of a fox or lynx, founded in Rome in 1603, was one of these.
— from An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park

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