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 ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.

  • Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
Date:
1670
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Credit: 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 ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of Anatomical Improvements. i * .. ^ 1 • ' . .. •: . ■: r , ’ “ XT C 7 E have another advantage above the Ancients in Y V “ Study, ufe, Improvements of Ana- p/wa/rr<t| “tomy, which we find as needful to bek novvn 4- p.n. “mollis, a* ’tis wonderful ’twas known /o little among the “ Ancients, SuperIHtion d^rrV/mwdiHedti- “ ons. For the Anatomifing bodies 0/ men counted <l barbarous inhumane *7? elder Himes : (4nd 1 cbferve “from a learned man of our own, that the Romans held it unlawful to look on the Entrails, ^/ind Tertullian feverely “ cenfures an inquisitive Phyfician of his time for this pra- “ èlice, faying; That he hated man,that he might know him. “ Tea, one of the Popes [I take it ’twas Boniface 8.) threatens “to excommunicate thofe that Jhoald do any thing of this i( then-abominable nature. ^nd Democritus was fain to ex- “ cufebis diflecftion of Beafts, even to the great Hippocrates. “Nor does it appear by any thing extant in the writings of Ga- “len, that that other Father of Phyficians ever made any Anatomy of humane bodies. Thus (by and unacquainted was “ Antiquity with this excellent Art, which is one of the moft ^ ufeful in humane life, and tends mightily to /^^evifeerating “of Nature, and difclofure of the Springs of its “tion. I have fet down without any interruption the words of this Englilh Bravo and Hetior cf our ^(Modern Bhilofopbers, that my Reader might come with a greater ex^etlation to the perufal of my Animadverfwns : fo high a charge of ig¬ norance upon the Jncients, fuch ufeful difeoveries of the elModerns render the former to be contemptible fellows, * K and