An account of the measure of the thickness of gold upon gilt wire; together with demonstration of the exceeding minuteness of the atoms or constituent parts of gold : as it was read before the Royal Society / by E. Halley.

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An account of the measure of the thickness of gold upon gilt wire; together with demonstration of the exceeding minuteness of the atoms or constituent parts of gold : as it was read before the Royal Society / by E. Halley.