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| Title | An Account of the Astronomical Discoveries of Kepler: Including an Historical Review of the Systems which Had Successively Prevailed Before His Time |
| Author | Robert Small |
| Publisher | J. Mawman, 1804 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Apr 8, 2009 |
| Length | 367 pages |
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