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A86055 Natura prodigiorum or, a discourse touching the nature of prodigies. Together with the kinds, causes and effects, of comets, eclipses, and earthquakes. With an appendix touching the imposturism of the commonly-received doctrine of prophecies, spirits, images, sigils, lamens, the christal, &c. and the propugners of such opinions. / By John Gadbury philomathēmatikos. Gadbury, John, 1627-1704. 1660 (1660) Wing G91; Thomason E2131_3; ESTC R202414 80,331 276

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