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1. The Concept of Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Vernon F. Snow
Vernon F. Snow
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Montana State University
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The Historical Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1962 , pp. 167 - 174
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2 Ibid. p. 55.

3 These observations are based on the following sources: Souter, Alexander's A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. (Oxford, 1949), 356Google Scholar; Cooper, Thomas's Thesaurus Lingue Romanas & Britannicae (London, 1573)Google Scholar under the entry ‘revolvo’; and Bloch, Oscar's Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Française (Paris, 1932), II, 231.Google Scholar

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6 See Florian Cajori's edition published by the University of California Press in 1934.

7 This work was published in London in 1611. See the entry under ‘revolution’.

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