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 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761
Other Authors: Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 1662-1733 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:The fourth edition, with amendments.
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Description
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.
Physical Description:2 volumes, 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.