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| Title | Elements of Natural Philosophy, Volume 1 Volume 23 of A library of universal literature. Part one - Science [vol.23] Clarendon Press series Elements of Natural Philosophy, Peter Guthrie Tait Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925 |
| Authors | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1873 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 24, 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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