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A51313 Remarks upon two late ingenious discourses the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies, the other, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum / D. Henry More. More, Henry, 1614-1687. 1676 (1676) Wing M2675; ESTC R2955 63,160 240

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