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Josuah Sylvester
1618Sep, 28

Josuah Sylvester

Josuah Sylvester, English poet and translator (b. 1563)
Josuah Sylvester (1563 – 28 September 1618) was an English poet.

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    Kepler's laws of planetary motion

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