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- ↑ Yeldham, Florence (1936). The Teaching of Arithmetic Through Four Hundred Years (1535–1935). London: Harrap. OCLC 152432557.
- ↑ Harris, L. E. (1953). Vermuyden and the Fens. London: Cleaver-Hume Press. ASIN B0000CILLT.