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- ↑ "Collection Highlight: Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum". rbscp.lib.rochester.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ↑ "January 25 : Anglo-Irish chemist Robert Boyle was born on this day in 1627". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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