A Discourse Concerning Time: With Application of the Natural Day, and Lunar Month, and Solar Year, as Natural; and of Such as are Derived from Them; as Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use: for the Better Understanding of the Julian Year and Calendar. The First Column Also in Our Church-calendar Explained. With Other Incidental Remarks |
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