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 ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c.
By: by Henry Stubbe ...
Contributors: Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557.; Sardi, Pietro, b. 1559?.; Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.; Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 298:22-23.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1670
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Sprat, Thomas, -- 1635-1713.; Glanvill, Joseph, -- 1636-1680.; Saltpeter.; Gunpowder.
Other titles: Legends no histories; Specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society; Plus ultra reduced to a non plus; Legends no histories.; Specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society.; Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.
Notes: 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.

Wing S6053

Wing S6063 (Plus ultra reduced)

Arber's Term cat. I 31

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Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1968. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 298:22-23)