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. /

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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Main Author: Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676
Corporate Author: Early English Books Online
Other Authors: Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557, Sardi, Pietro, b. 1559?, Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: [s.n.], 1670
Series:Early English Books, 1641-1700
Subjects:
Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. History of the Royal Society of London.
Saltpeter.
Gunpowder.
Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. Plus ultra.
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Physical Description:[28], 3-127, [12], 179, [2] p.

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