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- ↑ Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin, by R. Roger Remington and Robert S. P. Fripp. See Lessing references on pp. 36, 37, 46, 47 and 59. Lund Humphries Publishing (2007). ISBN 978-85331-968-9 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: length
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