Statical essays: containing vegetable staticks
Subtitle: or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables. Being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation: of use to those who are curious in the culture and improvement of gardening, &c. Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society ...
By: By Steph. Hales ...
Edition: The second edition, with amendments.
Publisher: Printed for W. Innys, T. Woodward, and J. Peele
Published: 1731
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Blood pressure; Hemostatics; Manometers; Blood-vessels; Urinary organs; Calculi; Deep-sea sounding; Gages
Notes: V. 2 has t.-p.: "Statical essays: containing haemastaticks; or, an account of some hydraulick and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals. Also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder; with an enquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions. To which is added, an appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume. The greatest part of which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society. With an index to both volumes. Vol. II ... By Stephen Hales ... London, Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, and T. Woodward, MDCCXXXIII".

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