Statical essays containing vegetable statics
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 Stephen Hales
Edition: The fourth edition, with amendments.
Publisher: Printed for Wilson and Nicol ...; T. Durham ...; G. Keith ... and Robinson and Roberts ...
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Urinary organs; Calculi; Early works to 1800; Plant physiology; Air; Analysis; Hemodynamics; Comparative Physiology; Plant Physiological Phenomena; Blood Pressure; Manometry
Other titles: Vegetable staticks.; Hæmastaticks.; Haemastaticks.; Account of some experiments on stones in the kidnies and bladder.; Appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume.; Account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables; Account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals
Notes: Half-title, v. 2, p.[183]: An account of some experiments on stones in the kidnies and bladder. With an inquiry into the nature of those anomalous concretions.

Half-title, v. 2, p.[251]: The appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume.

Vol. 1 first published as Vegetable staticks, 1727; v. 2 first published 1733.

Vol 2 is "The third edition, corrected."

Vol. 1: [6], x, [4], 376 p., 19 leaves of plates; v. 2: [10], vi, xvii-xxii, [26], 354, [22] p.

The plates variously signed: S.G.; S. Gribelin sculps.

Errors in paging: [v. 1], p. 206, 237 misprinted 204, 238; [v. 2], p. 114, 120, 137 misprinted 124, 12, 147.

Blanks, v. 2: prelim. p. [1], [4], [10]; p. [41], [184], [252].

Tail-piece, v. 2 only.

Includes index.

NUC pre-1956, CCXXVII, p. 8.

Hawke, L. Stephen Hales, X (v. 1).

Hawke, L. Stephen Hales, XI (v. 2).
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Containing vegetable staticks, 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 chymiostatical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society; title: v. 2. Containing hæmastatics, or, An account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood andblood-vessels of animals : also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder, with 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.