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A44313 Animadversions on the first part of the Machina coelestis of the honourable, learned, and deservedly famous astronomer Johannes Hevelius, consul of Dantzick together with an explication of some instruments / made by Robert Hooke ... Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. 1674 (1674) Wing H2611; ESTC R38964 66,602 94

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