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 .

• Autore: Stubbe Henry <1632-1676.>
• Pubblicazione: Printed at London, : [s.n.], 1670
• Descrizione fisica: [28], 3-127, [12], 179, [2] p
• Soggetto topico: Saltpeter; Gunpowder
• Altri autori: TartagliaNiccolò <d. 1557.> SardiPietro <b. 1559?> StubbeHenry <1632-1676.> HenshawThomas <1618-1700.>
• Note generali: 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": 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0062
• Titolo autorizzato: Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996386330203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno