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A45668 Idea longitudinis being a brief definition of the best known axioms for finding the longitude, or a more rational discovery thereof, than hath been heretofore published / by Edward Harrison ... Harrison, Edward. 1696 (1696) Wing H888; ESTC R40549 32,770 99

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