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A29052 Tracts containing I. suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air : with an appendix touching celestial magnets and some other particulars : II. animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo : III. a discourse of the cause of attraction by suction / by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq. ...; Selections. 1674 Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1674 (1674) Wing B4054; ESTC R17545 97,058 324

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