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Websites:
- The manuscripts: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Wallace/index.html
- William Wallace's biography: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk
- The ‘Butterfly Theorem’: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/Butterfly.shtml
- William Cormack's biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cormack