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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    c Dorniti anus <*) was called Mufeum, Sir do lib. 17. ) and ere&ed Libraries fan d furnifhed the Roman Empire with Phyfidans to the days of Pa- lentinian, and (?) Domiti an with Books. But it were unpardonable in a common School-bo) topafs by the Jonique and I ta¬ li que philofopbers un-mencioned ; and to tell us, iC That in Greece the moft confide* u rable(and indeed tbs only fucce fi fui ) trials <c were made at Athens.^ Whereas* if we regard Natural Philofophy , and abfbracfb from the Experiments of the Arifioteli- —- mifìrque AlcxtndrU (un qui examplaria deferiberent ; emen- dsrenc. 1:3 difeimus tempore Do?itimi non caruiffe Bibliotheca Alcxandtiam j nam Temper Urbs ilia profefTores plurimo* aluit. Pagpùn* Gaduzt, de Philof. apud Koman.c.i <38.p.456. ' , PaS' 7* I believe the cyreniic Philofopbers in the Court of Vionyfus made very ficcc.fd Exjpnmcn's : and their number is parai» ans, there was never any thing in Athens lelled by (fi my memory fail could compare with the difeovery that Thales, Anaximander , Anaximenes and' Anaxagoras made, which were of thq Jonique Se6t : and fince the Dialett ici which he writ ( not the place of his Nativity ) authorizeth me to do ir, I Anali reckon Hippocrates amongft the Jonian Philofophers,and Mr* Sprat may be certain be is not to be accounted for in Athens. And as to the Itali que and Elea- tique Se$$,dare any man fay the), that they were inferior to A- thens, or that their trials were tin fuccefiful $ who knows the performances of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Acron, Parmenides,.. Melijjuiy Leucippus, Democritu/, Ocellus5 Luc anus, Arch fas , Ar¬ chimedes, Sec ? At Alexandria ( a place we may not improper- ]y reckon in Greece, fince not only Mr. Sprat omits the mention of thofe Profeffors as Egyptians 5 but they writ in Greek, fol¬ lowed the Grecian (/) account and cuftomes, not ^Egyptian Cónti**. de and as Athene fhews ( lib.4. ) taught Greece it felf Philofo- Med,Hcrracr<:7 pby and the Liberal Arts ) if we remember that it was ttafeatCaI2,5>ag’1 of (o) Euclid the Mathematician-and there is fcarce one Mathematician re- /Euclidei Matftemaucus eoru.it tempo- corded but vvas related to Alexandria as ribus PtoIom;ci Lagidx, coque regnai- m«* ihews, ‘f*/* aule* illud cm- T& U {%i mendat Sebo lam d Euclide erett am A- Phil.Se&.c.xi.Seft.i, ' lex and r foe) quodnon folum multos reli- 4C querit difcipulos ; de quo stutter Pappus in fdptìmo collettionum i Mathematic arum 3 fed ab ejus tempore? ufque ad tempora S-arra- b- cso-ica.