Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths |
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| Titolo | Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths Early English Books Online / EEBO Volume 115 di Thomason tracts |
| Autore | Sir Thomas Browne |
| Edizione | 4 |
| Editore | Edward Dod, and are to be sould [sic], 1658 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la Biblioteca Pubblica di New York |
| Digitalizzato | 10 ott 2005 |
| Lunghezza | 326 pagine |
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