Brief lives : together with an apparatus for the lives of our English mathematical writers and the life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury / John Aubrey ; selected and edited with introduction, glossary and notes by John Buchanan-Brown ; foreword by Michael Hunter.

A dictionary of symbols / Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant ; translated from the French by John Buchanan-Brown.

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