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

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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$«•^lì into all parts of the body, with great celerity, and that it is that which nourijheth the parts : and that upon its diff ulion into the habit of the body, the fpirits are very much exhauft ed, and the corpulent part of the aliment doth remain,being coagulated partly by heat, and partly by cold. He faith, that the variety of the pulfe, as to ftrength or de- bility, celerity and flownefs, depends upon the nature of the vital fire, the nature of the aliment with which it is fed, and fometimes upon the particular Fabrick, or conformation of the Heart, in which that Fire is feated. He placeth jinaftomofes betwixt the veins and arteries e- very where in the body. Ofculorum communio eft non folum in corde, fed etiam per totum venerum fS* arteriarum duflum, He faith that the blood is never extravafated, but where it is aggregated to any part by way of nourijhment, or elfe it putrifies : he doth not underftand how it lhould not coagu¬ lateli once extravafated'^ nor can he comprehend how it iliould be reaUbmed into the veins in fuch a cafe. Venam continuam effe oportet, ufque ad cordis ventriculos, ut inde omnis virtus defeendat: nec allibi contingit disjuntfam effe; fanguis enim calore cordis deftitutus concrefcit, tandem pu- irefeit. He makes the Blood to pafs betwixt the right and left ven¬ tricle of the Heart 5 partly by the Lungs, and partly by the Septum Cordisr Pulchre igitur condita funt omnia. Cum emm fervere oporteret in corde fanguinem, utfieret alimentiperfeBio: primo quidem in dextro ventriculo, in quo crajfior adhuc conti- netur fanguis, deinde autem in finiftro, ubi fincericr fanguis eft : partimper medium feptum, partim per medics pulmones refri¬ gerai ionis gratia ex dextro in finiftrum mittitur. Interim an- Um palmo abunde nutriripoteft : totum enim eum fanguinem abfumere, quern recipit, egreditur fines rationis.Non enim rara- effet ejus fubftantia & levis,ut videlur fi tantum alimenti, vim infuamnaturamconverteret.Th\$l\\G thus further explains. Pulmoper venam arteriis (tmilem ex dextro cordis ventriculo fervidum hauriens fanguinem, eumque per anaftomofin arteria venali reddens qua in finiftrum cordis veniriculum tendlt, tranf- miffo$

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