Columbus breaking the egg
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Columbus breaking the egg

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 · December 1, 1753

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Christopher Columbus demonstrating, having cracked an egg in order to make it stand, that a discovery appears simple only after an inventive mind has made it known.

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