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An account of some Books: - I. The natural history of Oxfordshire, being an essay toward the natural history of England: By Robert Plot, LL. D. Printed at the theater in oxford, 1677, in fol. - II. L' Architecture Navale, avec le Routier des indes orientales & occidentales: Par le sieur dassié; à Paris 1677. in 4°. - III. Philosophical dialogues concerning the Principles of natural bodies; by W. Simpson, M. D. Lond. 1677. - IV. A new treatise of Chymistry, &c. written in French by Christopher Glaser, and faithfully englished by F. R. S. London, 1677. in 80. The worthy and learned Author of this Work, having very generously undertaken to make a fuller and stricter survey of the Natural and Artifical things of England , than hath been made hitherto, and being induced to this undertaking by the consideration of advancing thereby both the knowledge of Nature , and the business of Trade ; hath begun to execute this Noble design by giving us a very particular account of what occurred to him, for the most part upon his own personal enquiry, in Oxfordshire .
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