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Ms. E, 1r. - Memorandum: "On the force of a vacuum instantly generated. I saw in Milan a lightening bolt strike the tower of the Credenza... It was sucked into the vacuum that the flame from the lightening bolt left behind it, etc. and I have found parts of it in the high Apennines and as far away as the Sasso of La Vernia...", c. 1513
Ms. E, 1r. - Memorandum: "On the force of a vacuum instantly generated. I saw in Milan a lightening bolt strike the tower of the Credenza... It was sucked into the vacuum that the flame from the lightening bolt left behind it, etc. and I have found parts of it in the high Apennines and as far away as the Sasso of La Vernia...", c. 1513
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