Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover].
- Thomas Dover
- Date:
- [1733]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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