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• Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall…
• Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow…
• He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
• I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily…
• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's…
• The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
• Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have…
• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so…

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