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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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": p. 35.
"Animadversions upon the history of making gun-powder, written also by Mr. Henshaw": p. 89.
Errata on p. [2] at end of work.
Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
Marginal notes.
Wing S6053
Wing S6063 (Plus ultra reduced)
Arber's Term cat. I 31
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1968. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 298:22-23)
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