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 . . . ; [offered with:] Statical essays: containing haemastatics; or, an account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals. . . . To which is added, an appendix, . . . With an index to both volumes [PMM]
London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul’s; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street; and J. Peele, at Locke’s Head in Amen-Corner, M.DCC.XXXVIII [1738] / M.DCC.XL [1740]. Full Calf. A superb set of these classics of experimental science, milestones..... more
