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| Title | Elementary Hydrostatics: With Numerous Examples |
| Author | Sir John Budd Phear |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 139 pages |
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