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A28975 Experiments and considerations touching colours first occasionally written, among some other essays to a friend, and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1664 (1664) Wing B3967; ESTC R19422 194,968 470

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