A15752
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A short treatise of dialling shewing, the making of all sorts of sun-dials, horizontal, erect, direct, declining, inclining, reclining; vpon any flat or plaine superficies, howsoeuer placed, with ruler and compasse onely, without any arithmeticall calculation. By Edvvard Wright.; Arte of dialing
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Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
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1614
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STC 26023; ESTC S111551
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14,891
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53
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A54671
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An historical discourse of the first invention of navigation and the additional improvements of it with the probable causes of the variation of the compasse, and the variation of the variation : likewise, some reflections upon the name and office of admirall : to which is added a catalogue of those persons that have been from the first institution dignified with that office / by Thomas Philipott ...
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Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.
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1661
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Wing P1997; ESTC R15276
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17,155
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34
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A28653
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The longitude found, or, A treatise shewing an easie and speedy way, as well by night as by day, to find the longitude, having but the latitude of the place and the inclination of the magnetical inclinatorie needle by Henry Bond ...
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Bond, Henry.
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1676
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Wing B3564; ESTC R4991
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A24778
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A celestiall glasse, or, Ephemeris for the year of the Christian era 1652 being the bissextile or leap-year : contayning the lunations, planetary motions, configurations & ecclipses for this present year ... : with many other things very delightfull and necessary for most sorts of men : calculated exactly and composed for ... Rochester ... / by Robert Sliter.
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Sliter, Robert.
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1652
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Wing A2389; ESTC R26521
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A44924
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The flovver garden Shewing briefly how most flowers are to be ordered, the time of flowering, taking of them up, and of planting them again. And how they are increased by layers, off sets, slips, cuttings, seeds, &c. With other necessary observations relating to a flower garden. VVhereunto is now added. The gardiners or planters dialling, (viz.) how to draw a horizontal diall, as a knot in a garden, on a grass-plot, or elsewhere, the like before not extant. By William Hughes.
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Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.
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1672
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Wing H3337; ESTC R215414
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A51544
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Mechanick dyalling teaching any man, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane, however scituated : only with the help of a straight ruler and a pair of compasses, and without any arithmetical calculation / by Joseph Moxon ...
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Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.
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1668
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Wing M3009; ESTC R20066
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27,959
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54
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A22590
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A vvarning to the dragon and all his angels
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1625
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STC 904; ESTC S115841
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38,694
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114
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A04327
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Magneticall aduertisements: or Diuers pertinent obseruations, and approued experiments, concerning the natures and properties of the load-stone Very pleasant for knowledge, and most needfull for practise, of trauelling, or framing of instruments fit for trauellers both by sea and land. Whereunto is anexed a breife discouerie of the idle animaduersions of Mark Ridley Dr. in Physicke, vpon a treatise entituled Magneticall aduertisements.
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Barlow, William, d. 1625.; Barlow, William, d. 1625. Breife discovery of the idle animadversions of Marke Ridley. aut; Gilbert, William, 1540-1603. De magnete.
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1618
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STC 1444; ESTC S100862
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A04334
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The nauigators supply Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to nauigation, with the description and vse of diuerse instruments framed chiefly for that purpose; but seruing also for sundry other of cosmography in generall: the particular instruments are specified on the next page.
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Barlow, William, d. 1625.
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1597
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STC 1445; ESTC S100864
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A96355
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions; unlock'd and opened, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant houres Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions. Whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water. Also fire works of service, for sea and shore, very fitting for these warlike times of action. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificiall conclusions.
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White, John, d. 1671.
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1651
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Wing W1789; Thomason E1295_2; ESTC R208979
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A20104
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The making, description, and vse of a small portable instrument for ye pocket (or according to any magnitude) in forme of a mixt trapezia thus called a horizontall quadrant composed and prodused soly for the benefit and vse of such which are studious of mathematicall practice Written and delivered by Delamain, student and teacher of the mathematickes.
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Delamain, Richard, fl. 1631.
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1632
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STC 6544; ESTC S109555
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A29756
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The description and use of a joynt-rule fitted with lines for the finding the hour of the day and azimuth of the sun, to any particular latitude, or, to apply the same generally to any latitude : together with all the uses of Gunters quadrant applyed thereunto ... / contriv'd & written by J. Brown, philomath.
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Brown, John, philomath.
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1661
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Wing B5038; ESTC R33265
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A89305
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Horlogiographia optica. Dialling universall and particular: speculative and practicall. In a threefold præcognita, viz. geometricall, philosophicall, and astronomicall: and a threefold practise, viz. arithmeticall, geometricall, and instrumentall. With diverse propositions of the use and benefit of shadows, serving to prick down the signes, declination, and azimuths, on sun-dials, and diverse other benefits. Illustrated by diverse opticall conceits, taken out of Augilonius, Kercherius, Clavius, and others. Lastly, topothesia, or, a feigned description of the court of art. Full of benefit for the making of dials, use of the globes, difference of meridians, and most propositions of astronomie. Together with many usefull instruments and dials in brasse, made by Walter Hayes, at the Crosse Daggers in More Fields. / Written by Silvanus Morgan.
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Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.; Goddard, John, fl. 1645-1671, engraver.
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1652
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Wing M2741; Thomason E652_16; ESTC R202919
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A28968
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Experimenta & observationes physicæ wherein are briefly treated of several subjects relating to natural philosophy in an experimental way : to which is added, a small collection of strange reports / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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1691
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Wing B3959; ESTC R19615
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A00538
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Horologiographia The art of dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed: vvith the drawing of the twelue signes, and houres vnequall in them all. Whereunto is annexed the making and vse of other dials and instruments, whereby the houre of the day and night is knowne. Of speciall vse and delight not onely for students of the arts mathematicall, but also for diuers artificers, architects, surueyours of buildings, free-Masons and others. By T. Fale.
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Fale, Thomas, fl. 1604.; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, ill.
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1593
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STC 10678; ESTC S101825
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A55564
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Humane industry, or, A history of most manual arts deducing the original, progress, and improvement of them : furnished with variety of instances and examples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit.
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Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.
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1661
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Wing P3072; ESTC R8532
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A10774
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A short treatise of magneticall bodies and motions. By Marke Ridley Dr in phisicke and philosophie latly physition to the Emperour of Russia, and one of ye eight principals of elects of the Colledge of Physitions in London
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Ridley, Mark, 1560-1624.
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1613
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STC 21045; ESTC S101594
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A49269
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Geodæsia, or, The art of surveying and measuring of land made easie by plain and practical rules, how to survey, protract, cast up, reduce or divide any piece of land whatsoever : with new tables for the ease of the surveyor in reducing the measures of land : moreover, a more facile and sure way of surveying by the chain, than has hitherto been taught : as also, how to lay-out new lands in America, or elsewhere : and how to make a perfect map of a river's mouth or harbour : with several other things never yet publish'd in our language / by John Love ...
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Love, John, fl. 1688.
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1688
(1688)
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Wing L3191; ESTC R1523
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85,385
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310
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A16510
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A regiment for the sea conteyning most profitable rules, mathematical experiences, and perfect knovvledge of nauigation, for all coastes and countreys: most needefull and necessarie for all seafaring men and trauellers, as pilotes, mariners, marchants. [et] c. Exactly deuised and made by VVilliam Bourne.
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Bourne, William, d. 1583.
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1574
(1574)
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STC 3422; ESTC S104662
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95,591
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154
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B08245
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The accomplish'd sea-mans delight containing : 1. The great military of nature demonstrated by art ... 2. The closset of magnetical miracles unlocked ... 3. Directions for sea-men in distress of weather ... 4. The resolver of curiossities being a profitable discourse of local ...
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1686
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Wing A167A; ESTC R215626
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A29762
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Horologiographia, or, The art of dyalling being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant : shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies, with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection : with the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain : also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant : also, the use of the same instrument in navigation, both for observation, and operation : performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use / by John Brown, philomath.
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Brown, John, philomath.
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1671
(1671)
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Wing B5042; ESTC R17803
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103,467
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309
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A11283
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The safegarde of saylers, or great rutter Contayning the courses, distances, soundings, flouds and ebbes, with the marks for the entring of sundry harboroughs both of England, Fraunce, Spaine, Ireland, Flaunders, and the soundes of Denmarke, with other necessarie rules of common nauigation. Translated out of Dutch into English by Robert Norman hydrographer. And newly corrected and augmented by E.W.; Leeskaartboek van Wisbuy. English
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Antoniszoon, Cornelis, b. ca. 1499.; Norman, Robert, fl. 1590.; Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
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1605
(1605)
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STC 21549; ESTC S110544
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A19376
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The arte of nauigation conteyning a compendious description of the sphere, with the making of certayne instruments and rules for nauigations, and exemplifyed by many demonstrations. Written by Martin Cortes Spanyarde. Englished out of Spanishe by Richard Eden, and now newly corrected and amended in diuers places.; Breve compendio de la sphera y de la arte de navegar. English
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Cortés, Martín, 1532-1589.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.
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1589
(1589)
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STC 5802; ESTC S111167
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116,085
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174
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A03653
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Speculum topographicum: or The topographicall glasse Containing the vse of the topographicall glasse. Theodelitus. Plaine table, and circumferentor. With many rules of geometry, astronomy, topography perspectiue, and hydrography. Newly set forth by Arthur Hopton Gentleman.
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Hopton, Arthur, 1587 or 8-1614.
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1611
(1611)
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STC 13783; ESTC S104220
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122,586
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206
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A50263
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A very useful manual, or, The young mans companion containing plain and easy directions for spelling, reading, and uniting English, with easy rules, for their attaining to writing, and arithmetick, and the Englishing of the Latin Bible without a tutor, likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, walls, barrels, timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. ... : and several other considerable and necessary matters, intended for the good of all, and for promoting love to one another : as by the table annexed particularly appears / collected by William Mather.
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Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695.
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1681
(1681)
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Wing M1286; ESTC R36919
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124,932
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A43289
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A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont and translated, illustrated and amplified by Walter Charleton.
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Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.; Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.
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1650
(1650)
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Wing H1402; ESTC R30770
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135,801
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208
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A44631
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Remarks on the new philosophy of Des-Cartes in four parts ... / done by a gentleman.
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Howard, Edward.
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1700
(1700)
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Wing H2978; ESTC R11446
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138,891
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395
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A48262
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Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.; Récréation mathématique. English.
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Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. aut
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1653
(1653)
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Wing L1790; ESTC R217635
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140,825
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339
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A44885
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A learned treatise of globes, both cœlestiall and terrestriall with their several uses / written first in Latine, by Mr. Robert Hues, and by him so published ; afterward illustrated with notes by Jo. Isa. Pontanus ; and now lastly made English ... by John Chilmead ...; Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. English
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Hues, Robert, 1553-1632.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.; Pontanus, Johannes Isacius, 1571-1639.; Molyneux, Emery.
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1659
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Wing H3298; ESTC R1097
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A28980
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Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities among which is inferred a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities : together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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1676
(1676)
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Wing B3977; ESTC R14290
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165,888
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A69611
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Experimental notes of the mechanical origine or production of fixtness.
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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1675
(1675)
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Wing B3963A; ESTC R22966
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166,942
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586
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A50202
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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.
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Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
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1684
(1684)
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Wing M1207; ESTC W479522
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A16240
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Certaine secrete wonders of nature containing a descriptio[n] of sundry strange things, seming monstrous in our eyes and iudgement, bicause we are not priuie to the reasons of them. Gathered out of diuers learned authors as well Greeke as Latine, sacred as prophane. By E. Fenton. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Histoires prodigieuses extraictes de plusiers fameux auteurs grecs & latins. English
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Boaistuau, Pierre, d. 1566.; Fenton, Edward.
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1569
(1569)
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STC 3164.5; ESTC S105563
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173,447
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310
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A60282
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Natural philosophy improven by new experiments touching the mercurial weather-glass, the hygroscope, eclipsis, conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter, by new experiments, touching the pressure of fluids, the diving-bell, and all the curiosities thereof : to which is added some new observations, and experiments, lately made of several kinds : together with a true relation of an evil spirit, which troubled a mans family for many days : lastly, there is a large discourse anent coal, coal-sinks, dipps, risings, and streeks of coal, levels running of mines, gaes, dykes, damps, and wild-fire / by G.S.
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Sinclair, George, d. 1696.
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1683
(1683)
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Wing S3855; ESTC R15622
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320
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A60281
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The hydrostaticks, or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies, made evident by physical, and sensible experiments together vvith some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common, and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before / by G.S.
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Sinclair, George, d. 1696.
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1672
(1672)
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Wing S3854; ESTC R38925
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208,492
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331
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A67154
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Certain errors in navigation detected and corrected by Edw. Wright ; with many additions that were not in the former editions.
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Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
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1657
(1657)
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Wing W3689; ESTC R16243
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281,730
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362
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A46234
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An history of the wonderful things of nature set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man / written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.; Thaumatographia naturalis. English
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Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.; Libavius, Andreas, d. 1616.; Rowland, John, M.D.
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1657
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Wing J1017; ESTC R1444
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372
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A29861
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Browne.
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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
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1646
(1646)
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Wing B5159; ESTC R1093
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406
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A18028
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Geographie delineated forth in two bookes Containing the sphericall and topicall parts thereof, by Nathanael Carpenter, Fellow of Exceter Colledge in Oxford.
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Carpenter, Nathanael, 1589-1628?
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1635
(1635)
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STC 4677; ESTC S107604
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387,148
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599
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A19495
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Heauen opened VVherein the counsaile of God concerning mans saluation is yet more cleerely manifested, so that they that haue eyes may come and se the Christian possessed and crowned in his heauenly kingdome: which is the greatest and last benefit we haue by Christ Iesus our Lord. Come and see. First, written, and now newly amended and enlarged, by Mr. William Cowper, minister of Gods word.
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Cowper, William, 1568-1619.
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1611
(1611)
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STC 5920; ESTC S121914
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411,827
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530
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A39847
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Mosaicall philosophy grounded upon the essentiall truth, or eternal sapience / written first in Latin and afterwards thus rendred into English by Robert Fludd, Esq.; Philosophia Moysaica. English
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Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637.
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1659
(1659)
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Wing F1391; ESTC R6980
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A35987
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Two treatises in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other, the nature of mans soule is looked into in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules.
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Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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1644
(1644)
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Wing D1448; ESTC R9240
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548,974
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A80180
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The lighting colomne or sea-mirrour containing the sea-coasts of the northern, eastern and western navigation: setting forth in divers necessarie sea-cards all the ports, rivers, bayes, roads, depths and sands ... With the discoveries of the chief countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another ... As also the situation of the northernly countries, as islands, the strate Davids, the isle of Ian-Mayen, Bear-Island, Old-Greenland, Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla ... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers pilots and lovers of the famous art of navigation. By Jan van Loon. Whereunto is added a brief instruction of the art of navigation, together vvith nevv tables of the suns declination, also an almanack extending untill the yeare 1661.
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Colom, Jacob Aertsz, 1599-1673.
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1654
(1654)
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Wing C5401A; ESTC R230954
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A55484
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Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.; Magiæ natvralis libri viginti. English. 1658
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Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.
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1658
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Wing P2982; ESTC R33476
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A43008
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Archelogia philosophica nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy / by Gideon Harvey ...
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Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?
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1663
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Wing H1053_ENTIRE; Wing H1075_PARTIAL; ESTC R17466
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554,450
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A32712
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Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...
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Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.; Epicurus.; Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
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1654
(1654)
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Wing C3691; ESTC R10324
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556,744
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A28936
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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.; Works. 1699
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.; Boulton, Richard, b. 1676 or 7. General heads for the natural history of a country.
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1699
(1699)
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Wing B3921; ESTC R9129
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A36910
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The Young-students-library containing extracts and abridgments of the most valuable books printed in England, and in the forreign journals, from the year sixty five, to this time : to which is added a new essay upon all sorts of learning ... / by the Athenian Society ; also, a large alphabetical table, comprehending the contents of this volume, and of all the Athenian Mercuries and supplements, etc., printed in the year 1691.
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Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.; Athenian Society (London, England)
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1692
(1692)
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Wing D2635; ESTC R35551
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984,688
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A64730
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Cosmography and geography in two parts, the first, containing the general and absolute part of cosmography and geography, being a translation from that eminent and much esteemed geographer Varenius : wherein are at large handled all such arts as are necessary to be understand for the true knowledge thereof : the second part, being a geographical description of all the world, taken from the notes and works of the famous Monsieur Sanson, late geographer to the French King : to which are added about an hundred cosmographical, geographical and hydrographical tables of several kingdoms and isles of the world, with their chief cities, seaports, bays, &c. drawn from the maps of the said Sanson : illustrated with maps.
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Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667.; Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Varenius, Bernhardus, 1622-1650. Geographia generalis. English.
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1682
(1682)
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Wing V103; ESTC R2087
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1,110,349
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935
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A02495
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The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.; Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation.
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1599
(1599)
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STC 12626A; ESTC S106753
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3,713,189
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2,072
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