Statical essays : containing vegetable statics ; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables ; being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation ; of use to those who are curious in the culture and improvement of gardening, &c. ; also a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The fourth edition, with amendments. |
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| Item Description: | Volume 2 has title: Statical essays : containing hæmastatics ; or, An account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals ; also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder ; with an enquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions ; to which is added, an appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume; the greatest part of which were read at several meeting befor the Royal Society. 3d edition, corrected. Plates engraved by Simon Gribelin. The vegetable statics was first published in 1727; the Haemastatics in 1733. Includes index. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes, 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. |