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cosmology7
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nautical astronomy3
philosophy, ancient3
sundials3
celestial mechanics1
earthquakes1
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Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)6
Berroyer, Armand3
Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862)3
Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-17153
Kettilby, Walter3
Kettilby, Walter (1717)3
Laplace, Pierre Simon3
Laplace, Pierre Simon Marquis De (1749-1827)3
Norton, Roger3
Norton, Roger (1691-)3

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Telluris theoria sacra : orbis nostri originem & mutationes generales, quas aut jam subiit, aut olim subiturus est, complectens. Libri duo priores de diluvio & paradiso

Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715)

1702

Parts 2-4 have special t.p. Page 93 unpaged; pages 169, 289, 297 incorrectly numbered 161, 389, 397. A general, engraved, title-page precedes pt. 3. Includes bibliographic references.

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Moses vindicatus; sive Asserta historiæ creationis mundi aliarumque : quales à Mose narrantur, veritas. Adversus CL. V. T. Burnetii S.T.D. Archæologias philosophicas

Graverol, Jean (1647-1718)

1694

Attributed to J. Graverol (cf. Harrison, J. & Laslett, P. The library of John Locke (2nd ed., London, 1971), p. 193).

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Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique (v.1)

Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862); Berroyer, Armand; Laplace, Pierre Simon marquis de (1749-1827); Rossel M. de (1765-1829)

1810-11

Contents: t.1. Phénomènes généraux et moyens d'observations.--t.2. Théorie du soleil. Théorie de la lune.--t.3. Théorie des planètes, des comètes, et des satellites... [plus additions].

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Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique (v.2)

Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862); Berroyer, Armand; Laplace, Pierre Simon marquis de (1749-1827); Rossel M. de (1765-1829)

1810-11

Contents: t.1. Phénomènes généraux et moyens d'observations.--t.2. Théorie du soleil. Théorie de la lune.--t.3. Théorie des planètes, des comètes, et des satellites... [plus additions].

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Traité élémentaire d'astronomie physique (v.3)

Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862); Berroyer, Armand; Laplace, Pierre Simon marquis de (1749-1827); Rossel M. de (1765-1829)

1810-11

Contents: t.1. Phénomènes généraux et moyens d'observations.--t.2. Théorie du soleil. Théorie de la lune.--t.3. Théorie des planètes, des comètes, et des satellites... [plus additions].

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Théorie de la figure de la terre, tirée des principes de l'hydrostatique

Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713-1765)

1743

Title vignette.

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Earth in upheaval

Velikovsky, Immanuel (1895-1979)

1965

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Cleomedis Meteora Græce et Latine

Cleomedes; Balfour, Robert (1550?-1625?); Cleomedes

1605

Type ornament on title page. Robert Balfour commentary has title: Roberti Balforei commentarius in libros duos Cleomedis de contemplatione orbium coelestium. [title vignette] Burdigalæ, Apud S. Mil...

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Earthquakes and related sources of evidence on the earth's internal structure

Bullen, K E (1906-1976); Smithsonian Institution

1959

Bibliography: p. 332.

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An attempt to prove the motion of the earth from observations made by Robert Hooke

Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)

1674

"Hooke explains in his preface that this is the first of his Cutlerian Lectures to be published and that others will afterwards be printed in the same format so that they may be bound together. This l...

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