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 / By Henry Stubbe.

  • Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
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1670
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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 / By Henry Stubbe. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

Publication/Creation

Printed at London : And are to be sold by the book-sellers there, 1670.

Physical description

2 volumes (30 unnumbered pages, 127 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 16 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 1 unnumbered page) ; 23 cm (4to)

References note

ESTC R21316
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S6053

Notes

[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.
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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