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A15486 The search of causes Containing a theophysicall inuestigation of the possiblitie of transmutatorie alchemie. By Timothie Willis, apprentise in phisicke. Willis, Timothy. 1616 (1616) STC 25754; ESTC S114195 30,421 94

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