Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.

  • Henry Stubbe
Date:
1670
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Credit: Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be wfenfible of all merit that can derogate from Sir Robert Mur- ray, Dr. Wren, or Dr* WaUif : and tofufpedd: that the truly Honorable and inquifitive Mr. Boyle would abet a defign that fhould fubvcrt piety, and the proteflant Religion , doth not be¬ come any that knows him, or his writings. But fince good men are often-times made ufe of to pernicious ends , and unwit¬ tingly become instruments of the bafeft frauds $ fince none are to judge of Affairs by their tendencie, and not by the perfon3 that openly manage them , I doubt not but eventbefe perfons and 0- tbers of integrity and [olid worth will not imagine themfelves concerned in the maintenance of thofe Errors,which they can¬ not approve of, and every one knows they could not commit, nor hinder. I have been thus large in the Preface to remove all umbrages and mifconflruttions to which this undertaking might fubjcólme : the Preface alfo againft Mr. Glanvill may i'eem a little prolix in comparison of the fubfequent Difcourfe -, but the Specimen being lodged at London, partly in tranfcribing, and partly be- caufe that the diftance of the Term made the Edition lefs feafo- nab le, I thought fit to inlarge that Preface much during my ltay at Bathe, and to annex thofe other Obfervations made there, and what elfe is taken out of the Deputations of Vander Lin¬ den about the, Circulation of Blood , which Book I could not procure the fight of before. There be many defaults in the Language, and connexion of paj] ages which may be liable tofome cenfure : But whillt the Body of my Difcourfe Rands firm, the advantages which the ! Comical wits fhall derive from thofe peccadilloes will not be much : efpecially when I (Ball plead that the work was writ¬ ten amidft the heat of my praSlice : that the papers were not written^ nor any difcourfe finished at one time, but with fre¬ quent interruptions : that the feveral parcels and fragments were fent to fundry Learned perfons to experiment their judgment j that they wertjoyned together with fome alterations and new ' connexions, without any review of mine, at London : feveral ad¬ ditions being to be inferttd, as they came into my mind, in di¬ vers places, and fo tranfmitted by the pofi : which occafioned great