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The hydrostaticks; : or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies made evident by physical, and sensible experiments, together with some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before. (1672)

Sinclair, George, d. 1696 · Edinburgh : Printed by George Swintoun, James Glen, and Thomas Brown · leaf 291

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