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A45668
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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 ...
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Harrison, Edward.
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1696
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Wing H888; ESTC R40549
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