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during the seventeenth century. His full name is
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Regarding the universal practice of not giving people who claim to be
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was to incorporate the customs of his contemporary Poland. The work is terse and difficult and needed explanation by later commentators. His lasting effect on
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to print the work but did not have the needed funds, and died on the journey. It was not published until 1692 by
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