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Newton and his theory of matter in the eighteenth century

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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1978
Tongue: English
Weight: 518 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0083-6656
DOI: 10.1016/0083-6656(78)90036-3

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