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Bibliographic information
| Title | Key to Davies' Bourdon: With Many Additional Examples, Illustrating the Algebraic Analysis; Also, a Solution of All the Difficult Examples in Davies' Legendre |
| Author | Charles Davies |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes & Company, 1856 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 205 pages |
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