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 ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. /
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| Language: | English |
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1670.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | An attack upon Thomas Sprat's The history of the Royal-Society. "The Plus ultra reduced to a non plus, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Glanvill" has special t.p. and separate pagination. "Animadversions upon the history of making salt-petre, which was penned by Mr. Henshaw": pages 35. "Animadversions upon the history of making gun-powder, written also by Mr. Henshaw": pages 89. Errata on pages [2] at end of work. Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries. Marginal notes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([28], 3-127, [12], 179, [2] pages) |