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The secrets of numbers according to theologicall, arithmeticall, geometricall and harmonicall computation. Drawne, for the better part, out of those ancients, as well neoteriques. ... By William Ingpen, Gent.
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Ingpen, William.
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1624
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STC 14089; ESTC S107425
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