Vegetable staticks: or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables: being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation. 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 Steph. Hales, B.D. F.R.S. Rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex.
Stephen Hales (1677-1761)
Category
Books
Date
1727
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3008049
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], ii-vii, [2], 376 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Running number: 5789. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled full sprinkled and plain calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title label on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Stephen Hales (1677-1761)