Statical essays:
containing vegetable statics; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables. Being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation ... 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.
By Stephen Hales.

Description

Main Author

Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.

Related Names

Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 2-1733.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for Wilson and Nicol; T. Durham; G. Keith; and Robinson and Roberts, 1769.

Edition

The 4th ed., with amendments.

Subjects

Urinary organs > Urinary organs / Calculi > Urinary organs / Calculi / Early works to 1800.
Physiology, Comparative > Physiology, Comparative / Early works to 1800.
Air > Air / Analysis > Air / Analysis / Early works to 1800.
Plant physiology > Plant physiology / Early works to 1800.

Note

Includes index.
The Vegetable statics was first published in 1727; the Haemastatics in 1733.
Plates engraved by Simon Gribelin.
Vol. 2 has title: Statical essays: containing haemastatics; or, An account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals. Also an account of some experiments on stones in the kidneys and bladder. To which is added, an appendix, containing observations and experiments relating to several subjects in the first volume. 3d ed., corrected.

Physical Description

2 v. 19 plates, tables. 21 cm.

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