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, which the Virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon: written to save them the trouble of doing any thing besides defending themselves. Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. By Henry Stubbe, physician at Warwick.
Henry Stubbe (1632-1676)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3089911
Summary
Bibliographic description
[26],127,[1];[14],179p. . 4to.. Numbered '2.G 3.A' Provenance:Armorial bookplate: "The Right Noble William Duke of Devonshire Lord Steward of His Ma.ties Houshold & Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" [probably 1st Duke (1641-1707)]. Provenance:Gilt-stamped ducal coronet on spine above a swash D, with smaller initials WS [i.e. William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858)] Marked 'Duplicate for Hardwick' [i.e. Chatsworth duplicate] Binding: nineteenth-century half black morocco, marbled paper sides.
Makers and roles
Henry Stubbe (1632-1676) Thomas Henshaw (1618-1700) Pietro Sardi (b.1559) Niccolò Tartaglia (d.1557)