The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire,particularly those of Scarborough : Wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divided, their uses shown and explained, and an account given of their discovery and alterations. Together with the natural history ofthe earths, minerals and fossils through which the chief of them pass. The groundless theories, and false opinions of former writers are exposed, and their reasonings demonstrated to be injudicious and inconclusive. To which are added, large marginal notes, containing a methodical abstract ofall the treatises hitherto published on these waters, with many observations and experiments
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Type of record: Book
Title: The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire,particularly those of Scarborough : Wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divided, their uses shown and explained, and an account given of their discovery and alterations. Together with the natural history ofthe earths, minerals and fossils through which the chief of them pass. The groundless theories, and false opinions of former writers are exposed, and their reasonings demonstrated to be injudicious and inconclusive. To which are added, large marginal notes, containing a methodical abstract ofall the treatises hitherto published on these waters, with many observations and experiments
Classmark: BC Yorkshire A-3.6 q/SHO
Creator(s): Short, Thomas (1690?-1772)
Additional creator(s): Gyles, Fletcher (1741) (Other)
Related people: Gyles, Fletcher
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by F. Gyles over against Gray's-Inn in Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1734
Language: English
Size and medium: [20], xxii, 359 [i.e. 361], [3]p, 5 leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286576
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002305659705181
Description
A second part was published in Sheffield in 1740.
With Royal Society order to print, Sept. 17, 1733.
List of subscribers (8 pp.) after dedication.
Errata on last page, above publisher's notice of another work by Short.
A leaf signed "[Uu]" and numbered "[315]" and "[316]" precedes the normal p. 315.
Large paper copy.
Includes bibliographical references and index to waters examined.
Indexed in: Reference: ESTC t130118.
Additional description
With library label of W.T. Freemantle
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