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A60281 The hydrostaticks, or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies, made evident by physical, and sensible experiments together vvith some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common, and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before / by G.S. Sinclair, George, d. 1696. 1672 (1672) Wing S3854; ESTC R38925 208,492 331

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