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  <dc:title>Translation of a letter, from Mr Wind [to the Royal Society]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Concerning a brass idol called 'Pusteritz' seen in the University of Guiessen, Germany: gives an account of pagan practices surrounding it (that the idol would be filled with sulphurous matter, plugged and then heated, causing the plugs to fly out); gives information about how the first Greek emperors used similar objects as a weapon</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1712</dc:date>
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