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"Siphonaptera" is a name used to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong): Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. The lines derive from part of Jonathan Swift's long satirical poem "On Poetry: A Rapsody" of 1733: Lewis F. Richardson adapted the poem to meteorology in 1922:

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  • "Siphonaptera" is a name used to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong): Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. The rhyme appears in De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1872) along with a discussion of the possibility that all particles may be made up of clusters of smaller particles, 'and so down, for ever'; and similarly that planets and stars may be particles of some larger universe, 'and so up, for ever'. The lines derive from part of Jonathan Swift's long satirical poem "On Poetry: A Rapsody" of 1733: The Vermin only teaze and pinchTheir Foes superior by an Inch.So, Nat'ralists observe, a FleaHath smaller Fleas that on him prey,And these have smaller yet to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum:Thus ev'ry Poet, in his KindIs bit by him that comes behind[.] Lewis F. Richardson adapted the poem to meteorology in 1922: Big whirls have little whirlsThat feed on their velocity,And little whirls have lesser whirlsAnd so on to viscosity ... (en)
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  • "Siphonaptera" is a name used to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong): Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on. The lines derive from part of Jonathan Swift's long satirical poem "On Poetry: A Rapsody" of 1733: Lewis F. Richardson adapted the poem to meteorology in 1922: (en)
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