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| Title | A Treatise on Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics |
| Author | William Henry Besant |
| Publisher | Deighton, Bell, 1859 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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