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| Title | Popular lectures on scientific subjects, tr. by E. Atkinson. [1st] |
| Author | Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz |
| Translated by | Edmund Atkinson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 1881 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | May 16, 2006 |
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