Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society
Subtitle: 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
By: By Henry Stubbe
Contributors: Sardi, Pietro, 1559?-; Tartaglia, Niccolò, -1557
Publisher: And are to be sold by the book-sellers there
Published: 1670
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Gunpowder; Saltpeter
Other titles: A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal society.; Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.
Notes: [Vol. 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.

Collation includes final blank leaf in v. 1.

ESTC R21316.

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S6053.

Copy 1 Note: 2 pts. bound in 1.

Copy 2 Note: 2 pts. in 1. Bound with his: Censure upon certain passages ... in the history of the Royal Society. Pt. 1 lacks 3 leaves: errata; single leaf signed b between sigs. C and D, containing text omitted between pp. 16-17; D4 (pp. 23-4). Pt. 2 lacks 2 leaves: 1st blank (a1); second t.p. ("A specimen of some animadversions").

Copy 3 Pt. 2 Note: Last leaf defective