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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 What the World is, or What is Usually Understood by the Term, World
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    Chapter 2 The Motion of Stars, the Wanderers or Planets, as Well as the Stationary or Fixed Stars
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    Chapter 3 The Two Systems of the Ancients: That Based Upon the Presumed Inactivity of the Earth and That Based Upon Its Movement
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    Chapter 4 A Brief Resume of the System of the World Based Upon Ptolemy’s Theory of the Immovability of the Earth
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    Chapter 5 A Revised Pythagorean System of the World Wherein, According to Copernicus, the Sun is Held to be in its Center
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    Chapter 6 The Daily and Annual Movement of the Earth According to Copernicus
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    Chapter 7 Objections of the Astronomers and Natural Philosophers to the Copernican System
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    Chapter 8 Objections to the Copernican Theory from the Sacred Scriptures and Their Refutations
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    Chapter 9 The World System According to Tycho Brahe, the Noble Dane. He Assigns the Earth to the Center of the World and the Sun to the Center of the Planets Which Revolve Around it (with the Exception of the Moon)
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    Chapter 10 Another System Wherein the Earth is Situated in the Center of the World and Moves About Its Own Axis in the Space of Twenty-Four Hours
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    Chapter 11 The Corrected and Improved Copernican Theory of the World
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    Chapter 12 The Sun
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    Chapter 13 The Sun Spots
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    Chapter 14 Mercury
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    Chapter 15 Venus
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    Chapter 16 The Earth and the Moon
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    Chapter 17 Mars
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    Chapter 18 Jupiter
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    Chapter 19 Saturn and Planets in General
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    Chapter 20 A General Discussion of the Distances of the Stars
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    Chapter 21 The Distance of the Moon from the Center of the Earth
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    Chapter 22 The Size of the Moon
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    Chapter 23 The Distance of the Sun from the Earth
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    Chapter 24 The Size of the Sun
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    Chapter 25 The Distances of the Planets from the Earth and Their Magnitudes
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    Chapter 26 The Height or Distance of the Fixed Stars from Our Earth, According to the Followers of Ptolemy and Aristotle
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    Chapter 27 The Height or Distance of the Fixed Stars from the Earth According to the Followers of Tycho
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    Chapter 28 The Distance of the Stars According to the Followers of Pythagoras or Copernicus Who Locate the Sun in the Center of the World
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    Chapter 29 The Number of Fixed Stars and the Revelations of Telescopes in This Century as to Their Great Extent
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    Chapter 30 The Magnitude of the Fixed Stars
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    Chapter 31 Heaven or the Heavens as Well as the Atmosphere and Celestial Matter
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    Chapter 32 The Firmament and the Waters Above It, According to the Sacred Scriptures
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    Chapter 33 The Empyrean Heaven
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    Chapter 34 Are There Any Other Worlds Beyond This of Ours, and If There are, can They be Counted, or are They Uncountable?
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    Chapter 35 Imaginary Space Outside the World
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    Chapter 36 Why the Author was Led to Investigate the Vacuum
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    Chapter 37 Space and Time
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    Chapter 38 Empty Space
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    Chapter 39 Space
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    Chapter 40 The Space Existing between the Earth Bodies Is Commonly Called Sky
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    Chapter 41 Is Space, the Universal Container of All Things, Finite or Infinite?
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    Chapter 42 That Which is and That Which is Said Not to be
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    Chapter 43 Is Space, the Universal Container of All Things, Created or Uncreated?
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    Chapter 44 Infinity, Immensity, and Eternity
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    Chapter 45 Number
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    Chapter 46 The Heaven Which is Called the Abode of the Blessed
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    Chapter 47 The Greatest and the Smallest
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    Chapter 48 Concerning the Origin, Nature, and Characteristics of Air
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    Chapter 49 The First Vacuum Experiment Performed Through the Extraction of Water
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    Chapter 50 The Second Vacuum Experiment Performed Through the Extraction of Air
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    Chapter 51 The Construction of a Special Type of Apparatus for Producing a Vacuum
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    Chapter 52 The Third Experiment Demonstrating a Vacuum
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    Chapter 53 The Fourth Experiment: The Production of a Vacuum through the Extraction of Water from a Glass Vessel
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    Chapter 54 A Fifth and More Accurate Method of Producing a Vacuum
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    Chapter 55 The Sixth Experiment to Obtain the Best Possible Vacuum
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    Chapter 56 Does a Vacuum Exist in Nature, or Not?
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    Chapter 57 Experiments Concerned with Exhalation and Fermentation
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    Chapter 58 The Experiment in Which Clouds and Wind and the Colors of the Rainbow can be Produced in Glasses
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    Chapter 59 Fire in a Vacuum
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    Chapter 60 An Experiment in Which Air is Consumed by Fire
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    Chapter 61 Light in a Vacuum
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    Chapter 62 Sound in a Vacuum
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    Chapter 63 Experiments Performed with Animals in a Vacuum
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    Chapter 64 The Construction of a Kind of Hydraulic-Pneumatic Apparatus Which can be used not only for Carrying Out Numerous Experiments but also used as a Source of Mental Recreation and Study
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    Chapter 65 The use and Operation of the Aforementioned Apparatus
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    Chapter 66 A New Discovery through the use of This Apparatus Which Indicates the Weight of the Atmosphere
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    Chapter 67 Other Experiments of This Kind Which Demonstrate the Weight of the Atmosphere as Well as the Limit to Which Aversion of a Vacuum Extends
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    Chapter 68 Concerning the Weight of Air
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    Chapter 69 How to Determine the Pressure That a Cylinder of Air of Any Given Circumference Exerts
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    Chapter 70 The Experiment Demonstrating That as a Result of Air Pressure, Two Hemispheres can be Joined Together in Such a Way That They Cannot be Separated by Sixteen Horses
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    Chapter 71 A Further Experiment Wherein the Hemispheres Which Could Not be Drawn Apart by Twenty-Four Horses are Separated by the Admission of Air
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    Chapter 72 Another Experiment Wherein It is Shown That the Aforementioned Hemispheres can be Separated by a Weight
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    Chapter 73 Another Experiment Demonstrating That All Vessels can be Compressed and Broken by Air Pressure
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    Chapter 74 A Glass Vessel Which can Forcibly Pull More Than Twenty, Indeed Fifty or More Strong Men
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    Chapter 75 An Experiment to Raise a Great Weight
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    Chapter 76 An Experiment Employing a New and Heretofore Untested Airgun
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    Chapter 77 Experiments Which Show How Air Pressure Varies at Different Altitudes
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    Chapter 78 Experiment Showing How Air Pressure Fluctuates According to the Weather
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    Chapter 79 The Cause of Suction
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    Chapter 80 Experiments Concerned with the Expansion and Condensation or Compression of Air
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    Chapter 81 An Experiment Demonstrating Proof of a Vacuum through the Descent of Mercury in a Glass Tube Sealed at the Top
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    Chapter 82 Common Objections to the Existence of a Vacuum and Their Refutation
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    Chapter 83 The Opinions of the Reverend Kircher and Zucchi at Rome, as Well as Father Cornaeus, Professor at the University of Würtzburg, Concerning the Magdeburg Experiments
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    Chapter 84 A New Thermometer, So-Called Magdeburg
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    Chapter 85 A General Discussion of Mundane Virtues
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    Chapter 86 The Incorporeal Impulsive Virtue of the Earth
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    Chapter 87 The Nature and Characteristics of the Impulsive Virtue
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    Chapter 88 Experiment with a Globe Freely Suspended in Water
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    Chapter 89 The Conserving Virtue of the Earth
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    Chapter 90 The Expulsive Virtue of the Earth
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    Chapter 91 The Directing Virtue of the Earth
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    Chapter 92 The Difference between the Conserving and Directing Virtue of the Earth
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    Chapter 93 The Turning Virtue
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    Chapter 94 The Sound-Producing and Echo-Producing Virtue
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    Chapter 95 The Heat-Producing Virtue
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    Chapter 96 The Light-Producing and Coloring Virtue
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    Chapter 97 The Nature and Characteristics of Vision
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    Chapter 98 The Difference in Appearance between Stars at Greater and Lesser Distances
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    Chapter 99 The Experiment Wherein These Aforementioned Important Virtues Can Be Excited through Rubbing on a Sulphur Globe
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    Chapter 100 Other Corporeal and Incorporeal Virtues
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    Chapter 101 The Sphere of Land and Sea, or the Earth, and Its Size
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    Chapter 102 The Size of Our Sphere of Land and Sea Relative to the Planetary System
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    Chapter 103 The Earth is Composed of an Infinite Variety of Things Both Externally and Internally
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    Chapter 104 The Earth Spirit
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    Chapter 105 The Sea and Its Tides
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    Chapter 106 The Air Surrounding the Earth and the Elementary Fire That has Been Postulated
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    Chapter 107 The Height of the Air Around the Earth
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    Chapter 108 An Observation Made in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary by David Frölich Which Seems to Make a Significant Contribution to an Existing Opinion About the Height of Perceptible Air and Stratification
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    Chapter 109 The Stratification of the Atmosphere
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    Chapter 110 The Refraction of Air and the Consequent Difference in the Appearance of Stars, both as to Their Location and Size
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    Chapter 111 The Eccentricity of the Sun and Moon
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    Chapter 112 The Motion of Circulation of the Air
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    Chapter 113 The Sphere of Earth and Water does Not Lie at Rest in the Air
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    Chapter 114 The Sphere of Earth and Water Is Not in the Center of the World
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    Chapter 115 The Rotation of the Earth
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    Chapter 116 “Latio” or the Forward Motion of the Earth
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    Chapter 117 The Moon
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    Chapter 118 The Appearance of the Moon and Its Spots
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    Chapter 119 The Forward Motion of the Moon
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    Chapter 120 The Moon’s Motion
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    Chapter 121 The Conjunction and Comparison of the Moon with Our Sphere
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    Chapter 122 The Distance and Size of the Moon
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    Chapter 123 Are There or are There Not Animals on the Moon?
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    Chapter 124 Eclipses
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    Chapter 125 The Destruction of the Earth
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    Chapter 126 Appendix to This Fifth Book Comets
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    Chapter 127 The World, What It is, and What is Included in the Term, in This Treatise
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    Chapter 128 In What Sense the World is One Body and Why It Should be Termed a Unity
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    Chapter 129 The Forward Motion of the World
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    Chapter 130 The Peripatetic Concept of the World
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    Chapter 131 The Motion of the World According to the Followers of Tycho
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    Chapter 132 The Movement of the World as Set Forth by the Author and in Part by Certain Other Writers
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    Chapter 133 The Earth Bodies
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    Chapter 134 The Sun
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    Chapter 135 The Size of the Sun and Its Distance from the Earth
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    Chapter 136 The Wandering Stars or Planets
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    Chapter 137 The Forward Motion of the Planets
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    Chapter 138 Planetary Motion
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    Chapter 139 The Distance of the Planets
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    Chapter 140 The Size of the Planets
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    Chapter 141 Are There Animals on the Planets?
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    Chapter 142 The True System of This World
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    Chapter 143 The Boundaries of Our World
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    Chapter 144 The Distance of the Fixed Stars from Our Earth or Rather from the Sun
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    Chapter 145 The Size and Number of the Stars
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    Chapter 146 The Fixed Stars and What They Really are
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    Chapter 147 Father Kircher’s Opinions Concerning the Fixed Stars Along with Our Own Remarks
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    Chapter 148 The Limit or Outermost Boundary of the Stars
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Title
The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4
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978-9-40-104888-0, 978-9-40-112010-4
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Guericke, Otto

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