Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : 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.
| Author/creator | Stubbe, Henry |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Printed at London : [s.n.], 1670. |
| Description | [28], 3-127, [12], 179, [2] p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240946843 |
| Subjects |
| Included Work | Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557. Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Libro 3. English. |
| Included Work | Sardi, Pietro, b. 1559? Artiglieria. English. Selections. |
| Included Work | Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Plus ultra reduced to a non plus. |
| Included Work | Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | An attack upon Thomas Sprat's The history of the Royal-Society. |
| General note | "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. |
| General note | "Animadversions upon the history of making salt-petre, which was penned by Mr. Henshaw": p. 35. |
| General note | "Animadversions upon the history of making gun-powder, written also by Mr. Henshaw": p. 89. |
| General note | Errata on p. [2] at end of work. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries. |
| General note | Marginal notes. |
| References | Wing S6053 |
| References | Wing S6063 (Plus ultra reduced) |
| References | Arber's Term cat. I 31 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 298:22-23) |
| Other title | Legends no histories. |
| Other title | Specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society. |
| Other title | Plus ultra reduced to a non plus. |
| Stock number | CL0037000008 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |