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A08589 To the English gentrie, and all others studious of the mathematicks which shall bee readers hereof. The just apologie of Wil: Oughtred, against the slaunderous insimulations of Richard Delamain, in a pamphlet called Grammelogia, or the mathematicall ring, or mirisica logarithmorum projectio circularis. Oughtred, William, 1575-1660. 1634 (1634) STC 18901A; ESTC S119424 30,064 34

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