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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Type of record: Book
Title: 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
Other titles: A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal society; The Plus ultra reduced to a non plus
Classmark: Chaston Chapman Royal Society STU
Creator(s): Stubbe, Henry (1632-1676)
Additional creator(s): Sardi, Pietro (1559-) (Other); Tartaglia, Niccolò (1557) (Other)
Related people: Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713; Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700; Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680
Publisher: And are to be sold by the book-sellers there
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1670
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes in 1 (30 unnumbered pages, 3-127 pages; 16 unnumbered pages, 179 pages)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/233521
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012793359705181
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Errors in paging: v. 1, [2] p. marked (0), inserted following p. 16; p. 97 incorrectly numbered 79; v. 2, p. 79, 140-141, 148-149, 176-177, 180-181, incorrectly numbered 97, 150-151, 149, 148, 174-175, 178-179, respectively; no. 115-116 repeated in the paging.
Title of v. 1 within line border.
Marginal notes.
[Volume 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.
The Plus ultra reduced to a non plus has seperate title-pages.
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