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- ↑ Gingerich, Owen (2004). The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York: Walker. ISBN 0-8027-1415-3.
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- ↑ In an appendix to Gregorius Reisch's Margarita Philosophica, published in Strasburg.
- ↑ Daumas, Maurice (1989). Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers. London: Portman. ISBN 978-0-7134-0727-3.
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- ↑ Johnston, Stephen (2004). "Recorde, Robert (c.1512–1558)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23241 . Retrieved 2012-01-26.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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