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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