The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, ... Containing His Cutlerian Lectures, and Other Discourses, Read at the Meetings of the Illustrious Royal Society. ... Illustrated with Sculptures. To These Discourses is Prefixt the Author's Life, ... Publish'd by Richard Waller |
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