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A28817 A new treatise proving a multiplicity of worlds that the planets are regions inhabited and the earth a star, and that it is out of the center of the world in a third heaven, and turns round before the sun which is fixed : and other most rare and curious things / by Peter Borell ...; Discours nouveau prouvant la pluralité des mondes. English Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671.; Sashott, D. 1658 (1658) Wing B3753; ESTC R19665 37,952 224

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