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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    eF the fame blood which was burned in the fore-going Ex* pertinent or blood newly congealed, and Separated from the Serum, which was in this laft cafe dried into the ma fi) and it did burn with a vwid and continued flame prefentlv Which accident / take notice of, to fliew the differential noniena upon tnc diverfe way of burning the blood. I took a third portion or the fard congealed and firm ma fi of blood, find put it to fome cold water in a Glafs, and it diffolved moft Gi it therein, and tinged the water of as beautiful a red as any claret, though other wife the ma fi were blackifl.), and had nothing of but what was in the extimòus crufi: of the bot¬ tom, whicn fee me d of a moft deep red inclining to black. t I buffered two or three fpoonfuls of Hogs-blood to run into a large Venice-Glafs, in which was haife a pint of the LMo- thers'of Peter; l buffered it to ftand fome days, and come- ing then to fie it, I obferved that the Mothers were become opacous almofl: to the bottom, on the top was a mafs of coa¬ gulated blood cxafUy refcmbling the colour of Oker r was fo firm, that 1 took it with my knife in one entire piece, but I found tnztdpanàbottom of the mafs (which was pretty thick) to be very foft, but not as it were fibrous $ the middle was morej£rm : I put fome of it upon a fire-fhovcll in an arched and quick fire, when it boyled up, and ran about, and by its [puttering difeovered a mixture of Salt-pater: but it did not flams at all, though I brought it to ignition. Examinc- mg the remaining Mothers, Ì found * [anguine mixture to float™, and ftain the liquor of an Oker-colour, and fome of it was aggregated into little majfes or lumps, whole particles did not cohere by any tenacious fibres ( indeed 1 have not been able to obferve any tenacioufly-fibrous coagulations in the blood of Hags hitherto ) but upon the leaft touch of my warm band, they dillolvcd or yielded unto the le^ff prejfure Out or all which / intend' to deduce, that finte common Experi¬ ments may (hew that, which-no Chymical Fires give any light ™*9: That there is a great diuerfity betwixt the blood of other J-mmalsand that of Men: becaufc that upon the fame Liquors they difclofe different Phenomena ; and confcqucnt- L that the Trans fu fon is a raff and mfafe attempt.