02365nam 2200481Ia 450 99638633020331620200818215517.0(CKB)4940000000077413(EEBO)2240946843(OCoLC)ocm12483887e(OCoLC)12483887(EXLCZ)99494000000007741319850903d1670 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society[electronic resource] 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 ..Printed at London [s.n.]1670[28], 3-127, [12], 179, [2] pAn 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": p. 35."Animadversions upon the history of making gun-powder, written also by Mr. Henshaw": p. 89.Errata on p. [2] at end of work.Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.Marginal notes.eebo-0062SaltpeterGunpowderSaltpeter.Gunpowder.Stubbe Henry1632-1676.1001567Tartaglia Niccolòd. 1557.348746Sardi Pietrob. 1559?1016244Stubbe Henry1632-1676.1001567Henshaw Thomas1618-1700.524625EAAEAAm/cWaOLNBOOK996386330203316Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society2376919UNISA