An edition of Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society (1670)

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

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An edition of Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society (1670)

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

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Pages
179

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Subjects
Gunpowder, Saltpeter
People
Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680), Thomas Sprat (1635-1713), Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700)

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Cover of: Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society
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
1670, And are to be sold by the book-sellers there
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Cover of: Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society
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
1670, And are to be sold by the book-sellers there
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[Vol. 2] has title: The Plus ultra reduced to a non plus: or, A specimen of some animadversions upon the Plus ultra of Mr. Glanvill ... By Henry Stubbe ... London, Printed for the author. 1670; and added title-page: A specimen of some animadversions upon a book, entituled, Plus ultra, or Modern improvements of useful knowledge. Written by Mr. Joseph Glanvill ... London, Printed in the year 1670.

Collation includes final blank leaf in v. 1.

ESTC R21316.

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S6053.

Copy 1 Note: 2 pts. bound in 1.

Copy 2 Note: 2 pts. in 1. Bound with his: Censure upon certain passages ... in the history of the Royal Society. Pt. 1 lacks 3 leaves: errata; single leaf signed b between sigs. C and D, containing text omitted between pp. 16-17; D4 (pp. 23-4). Pt. 2 lacks 2 leaves: 1st blank (a1); second t.p. ("A specimen of some animadversions").

Copy 3 Pt. 2 Note: Last leaf defective

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A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal society., Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.

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2 volumes (30 unnumbered pages, 127 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 16 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ;
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