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A28966 The excellency of theology compar'd with natural philosophy (as both are objects of men's study) / discours'd of in a letter to a friend by T.H.R.B.E. ... ; to which are annex'd some occasional thouhts about the excellency and grounds of the mechanical hypothesis / by the same author. Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1674 (1674) Wing B3955; ESTC R32857 109,294 312

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