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  <dc:title>Paper, 'A description of the horizontal sails with their use and benefitt' by Gilbert Clerke</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Clerke describes his invention of horizontal sails, or windmill blades, discussing their construction, force, and benefit, and answers objections to his invention.

Subject: Engineering

Written by Clerke at St Martins [Church] in Stamford [Lincolnshire, England]. Read to the Royal Society on 9 April 1690.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>7 November 1688</dc:date>
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