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An account of a portable barometer : with reasons and rules for the use of it : how to weigh the air, measure its height, and foretell all the alteration of weather, the constitution of the atmosphere ... : with a new account and experiments how rain, snow, winds, frost, thunder, lighting, hurricans and tornado's are produced

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MDCXCX [i.e. 1700]
Call number: 489761
Creator: Parker, Gustavus(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 17 cm (8vo)
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