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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 ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. / by Henry Stubbe ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge.
- Saltpeter.
- Gunpowder.
- Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. Plus ultra.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28 unnumbered pages, 3-127 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 179 pages, 2 unnumbered pages)
- Other Title:
- Legends no histories.
- Specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society.
- Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : [publisher not identified], 1670.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- 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": pages 35.
- "Animadversions upon the history of making gun-powder, written also by Mr. Henshaw": pages 89.
- Errata on pages [2] at end of work.
- Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
- Marginal notes.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 298:22-23) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing S6053
- Wing S6063 (Plus ultra reduced)
- Arber's Term cat. I 31
- Contains:
- Tartaglia, Niccolò, -1557. Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Libro 3. English
- Sardi, Pietro, 1559?- Artiglieria. Selections. English
- Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.
- OCLC:
- 12483887
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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