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Pyrotechnia, or, A discovrse of artificiall fire-works : in which the true grounds of that art are plainly and perspicuously laid downe : together with sundry such motions, both straight and circular, performed by the helpe of fire, as are not to be found in any other discourse of this kind, extant in any language : whereunto is annexed a short treatise of geometrie, contayning certaine definitions and problemes for the mensuration of superficies and sollids, with tables for the square root to 25000, and the cubick root to 10000 latus, wherein all roots under those numbers are extracted onely by ocular inspection (1635)

Babington, John, Droeshout, John, -1652 · London : Printed by Thomas Harper, for Ralph Mab · leaf 114

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