Statical essays: containing vegetable staticks; or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables. Being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation: of use to those who are curious in the culture and improvement of gardening, &c. Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society. Vol. I. By Steph. Hales, B.D. F.R.S. rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and minister of Teddington, Middlesex
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London: printed for W. Innys, at the west end of St. Paul's; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and J. Peele, at Locke's Head in Amen-Corner, M,DCC,XXXI. [1731]
The second edition, with amendments.; ..
- Publication year
- 1731
- ESTC No.
- T69058
- Grub Street ID
- 293156
- Description
- [6],viii,[4],376p., 19 plates ; 8°.
- Note
- Vol. 1 of the 'Statical essays' was originally published in 1727 as 'Vegetable staticks: or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables'
Vol. 2 is entitled 'Statical essays: containing haemastaticks'.