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| Title | An Elementary Treatise on the Lunar Theory: With a Brief Sketch of the History of the Problem Up to the Time of Newton |
| Author | Hugh Godfray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1853 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 103 pages |
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