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The Newtonian system of the world, the best model of government : an allegorical poem. With a plain and intelligible account of the system of the world, by way of annotations: with copper plates: To which is added, Cambria's complaint against the intercalary day in the leap-year / By J.T. Desaguliers.

St Alban Hall and Merton College, Oxford: King Henry VIII granting St Alban Hall to the college. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1747.

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St Alban Hall and Merton College, Oxford: King Henry VIII granting St Alban Hall to the college. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1747.