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 InfoPrinted at London : [s.n.], 1670.
Description[28], 3-127, [12], 179, [2] p.
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Subjects

Included WorkTartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557. Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Libro 3. English.
Included WorkSardi, Pietro, b. 1559? Artiglieria. English. Selections.
Included WorkStubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.
Included WorkHenshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteAn 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 noteErrata on p. [2] at end of work.
General noteReproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.
General noteMarginal notes.
References Wing S6053
References Wing S6063 (Plus ultra reduced)
References Arber's Term cat. I 31
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 298:22-23)
Other titleLegends no histories.
Other titleSpecimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society.
Other titlePlus ultra reduced to a non plus.
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