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plurality of worlds2
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Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De (1657-1757)4
Academie Des Sciences1
Behn, Aphra1
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)1
Chamberlayne, John1
Chamberlayne, John (1666-1723)1
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De1
Gardiner, William1
Glanvill, John1
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The Lives of the French, Italian and German philosophers : late members of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. Together with abstracts of some of the choicest pieces, communicated by them to that illustrious society

Chamberlayne, John (1666-1723); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Académie des Sciences

1717

Dedication signed by the translator: John Chamberlayne. Book-lists of William Innys (4 pp.) and John Darby (16 pp.) at end.

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A plurality of worlds

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Glanvill, John (1664?-1735)

1688

Indexed in: Wing F1416.

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The theory or system of several new inhabited worlds : lately discover'd and pleasantly describ'd: in five nights conversation with Madam the Marchioness of ***

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

printed in the year 1718

Includes 'An essay on translated prose' by Aphra Behn. Forms part of vol. 2 of Aphra Behn's 'Histories and novels', edition uncertain. The missing catchword THE refers to the third item in the 'Hist...

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Conversations on the plurality of worlds

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Gardiner, William

1715

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