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The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635-1703 by Stephen Inwood
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“In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.”
― Stephen Inwood, The Forgotten Genius

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