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MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL PAPERS . BY SIR W. THOMSON , LL.D. ,
D.C.L. , F.R.S. , Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow .
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MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL PAPERS . BY SIR W. THOMSON , LL.D. ,
D.C.L. , F.R.S. , Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow .
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| Title | Nature, Volume 27 |
| Editor | Sir Norman Lockyer |
| Publisher | Macmillan Journals Limited, 1883 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Jul 2007 |
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