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Legends no histories or, A specimen of some animadversions upon the history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common iterature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-power 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 : written to save them the trouble of doing any thing besides defending themselves / by Henry Stubbe |
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