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| Title | Elementary Treatise on the Wave-theory of Light |
| Author | Humphrey Lloyd |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 19 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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