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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    (in'* that the interpun&ion of the period is fo equivocally placed n.nd penned, that the unwary Reader may think that Dr Lower,, as well as the others was encouraged to the trial by the Society. Whereas he was not, whatever the others were. Again, it is difingenioujly faid, that he was Toon overtaken by fever al happy Trials of Dr. Edmund King, and others, encou- raged thereto.by the Society. Since it appears by the letter of Mr. Boyle, that the Society knew not how to do the thing in June, which Dr. Lower had efiedfed in February, and the fame thereof at that time was fpread over England. In July Dr> Lower acquainted the Society with the manner of the Transfafon, whereof Dr. Wallis had given the Society an im- perfect account a little before of what he had feen Dr. Lower do at Oxford. So that for at lead four or five months, the Members of the Society did not overtake Dr. Lower. But after they were acquainted with the contrivance, they in¬ vented it very clearly. From hence it is eafie for any man to judge with how much right Mr. Glanvill doth fny, that both the inje&ing (f eJMedicines, and transfufing blood into the veins of Animals, thofe Noble Experiments were the late Inventions of the SO¬ CIETY. I /hall now proceed to inquire into the Utility ©1 ttoem , thereby to difeover how noble and excellent they are, and what advantages we may hope to derive from them hereafter. Becaufe thisTrans funding of blood hath hitherto been look¬ ed on as the primary Invention, and the molt famed of any the Society were ever intit led unto: and that they themfeUes have particularly concerned themfelves in averting it to be their difeovery, to the end that every Reader may the better be able to judge of the ContrcVerfie, without being forced to gofeek out amongff the fcattered tranfattions and elfe- wht'ce, feveral Mijlories that are material to the palling a right judgement} I fhall crave pardon if I do relate particu¬ larly the matter of fa$t, and what hath been fundry times performed by the Englijh, Italian and French Virt'uofi, with e- very circumlfance, botn as to injedling of ofMedicines, and of blood into the veins.