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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1695-1700+
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Pnewmaticks. (17th c. Eng. Pneumaticks (1660) a branch of physics. In this sense, only in the Scottish Universities, applied to a branch of metaphysics = Pneumatology.) — 1695 Comm. Univ. IV. Aberd. 176.
That … the pnewmaticks or speciall metaphysiks [be composed] by the colledge of Edinburgh 1708 Edinb. Univ. Chart. 164.
Many usefull things belonging to the pnewmaticks and morall philosophy
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