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3001 VOLTAIRE (FranQois Marie Arouet de) El^mens de la Philosophie de Neuton [sic], 

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3003 NEWTON (John ; Canon of Hereford) Astronomia Britannica, exhibiting the Doctrine of 

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3310 Views of the Architecture of the Heavens, 3rd Ed., with 23 plates, and diagrams, 8vo. 



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3311 NICHOLS (Edward Leamington, Cornell Univ.) Laboratory Manual of Physics and 

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