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Mercury

or the secret and svvift messenger : Shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance

Also known as Secret and swift messenger

by John Wilkins

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English

Description

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None of the 2 sources behind this record supplied a summary of Mercury (1641). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Telepathy, Electronic books, Ciphers, Cryptography, Cryptography - Early works to 1800, Ciphers - Early works to 1800

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Controlled discovery queries from harvard and wellcome matched “telepathy”. Retained metadata contains “Telepathy” in the subject metadata.

    • telepathy· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • telepathy· via Wellcome Collection
    • Telepathy· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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or the secret and svvift messenger : Shewing, how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his thoughts to a friend at any distance

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

14 unnumbered pages, 48, 65-80, 83-98, 81-128, 127-169, 180 pages

1641Printed by I. Norton, for Iohn Maynard, and Timothy Wilkins, and are to be sold at the George in Fleetstreet, neere Saint Dunstans ChurchEnglishCatalog record

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Identifiers

Harvard
  • 99154239799903941

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Catalog id
wellcome:rn5sjhdm
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