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| Title | Heat considered as a mode of motion: 12 lects Lectures delivered at the royal institution of Great Britain |
| Author | John Tyndall |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1863 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 480 pages |
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