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A01073 The groundes of the longitude with an admonition to all those that are incredulous and beleeue not the trueth of the same. VVritten by Simon Forman, student in Astronomie and Phisique. 1591. Forman, Simon, 1552-1611. 1591 (1591) STC 11185; ESTC S113117 8,641 16

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