" In the whole world of scholarship, there were only a handful of scientific journals in the 18th century, and the publication of a book was an event, " says Edward Wilson, honorary curator in entomology at Harvard University's museum of comparative zoology.

“在18世纪，整个国际学术界总共只有屈指可数的几家科学刊物，出版一本书是件了不起的大事，”哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆昆虫馆名誉馆长爱德华·威尔逊说。