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A plurality of worlds written in French by the author of the Dialogues of the dead ; translated into English by Mr. Glanvill.; Entretiens sur la pluralités des mondes. English
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Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.; Glanvill, John, 1664?-1735.
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