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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    . f > 1 Se cenica vix ullum invanire fit nobilem Mathematic um * quin iz i)rt patria fuit Alcxandrinus 3 vel faltemj Alexandria de- Ccderit operm Mathep. Vo(f* de Scient. Mathemat. c. 15. pag; ct 52. The fame is avowed by Sir Henry Savilin his fecond £c Le#ure. cc Huclidem enituit Archimedes-— & E- cc ratofthenes. Hot infecuti Apollonius Pergacus, Geminus, <c Thcodohus* Menelaus Geometra diBusfé alii ex Schola fere £C Alexandrinà profetiti omnes, ufque ad tempora Sarraceno- rum. There flourifhed Hcrophilus and Themifon^ and Diofcorides , and many other Profefifors of Phyfick, Ana* tomy, and Philofophy (even Chymiflry , and the Philofophers- ) ’cis extreme imprudence to mention Athens thus 1 But, to gratifichine further than he deferves or can expert 5 to yield that up to Ari [lot le and bis Peripatetick followers in Athens tAr. spm.pag. which cannot feem due to fuch as ( b ) fpent their time in idle talking and wandring under thefruitlefs jhadows of nature, in their flrfl irflitution^ ( as their fucce/ors have done ever fince ) and were utterly ufelefs in refpeB of the good of man-kinde, To grant our ftrtuofo more than the widksyporches, and gardens .he prates of, do merit, what a {franger is be in the Hiflory of Philofophy^ and how ignorant of the SubjeB he difeourfetb aboutytiot to know what DialeRs the Grecian Philofophers writ in, nor how ele¬ gant was their flyle ? Some ufed the Jonique , others the Do- rique diale#, and thofe embafed feveral ways according as their humors, their Countreys , or the novelty of the SubjeB put them upon it : And even at Athens, neither the Stoiques, nor Epicureans were fo folicitous about Rbetorick , as to chufe that for philofophy which they could moft eloquently exprefs. And fince Plato had his , and Ariflotle his ivhntx* and other terms and exprejflons5 ’tis hard t© thinkthat they did fo regulate their Philofophy by their regards to the ornaments.of fpeecb , as Mr. Sprat imagines. How comes it to pafs then that our Hi- florian intimates to us (’tis a£c new invention ! to give the Co- u meal wits their due, though fooleries ) that the Athenians i Did the Atbe- tc were the ( i ) Maflers of the Arts of [peaking to all their Neigh• nuns teach « hours [ which is fatfe concerning the fonians j and probably vtmtritHs to°f cc of fome others ] a&dfo might well be inclined , rather to chufe fucb