STATICAL ESSAYS. 2 volumes Containing Vegetable Staticks; Or, an Account of the Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. /
Published by W. Innys and R. Manby, T. Woodward, J. Peele 1738, 1740, London, 1738
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Octavos: I: x - [xiii], [1]-376. II:[ix], [i]-xxii,[xxvi], 1-354, + Postscript (from 1739/40, 2pp.) and a General Index to both volumes (20pp.), , contemporary full calf, modern rebacking in brown calf with red leather labels; with brass corners added. Ex libris Aquilla Smith, M.D., the editor of the 'Dublin Pharmacopaeia', with a Dublin bookseller's labels. Volume 2 is concerned with Haemastatics; Or an Account of the Hydraulic and Hydrostatical Experiments Made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals. Also an Account of some Experiements on Stones in the Kidneys and Bladder . . Read before the Royal Society. " In this work is recorded Hales's invention of the manometer, with which he was the first to measure blood-pressure. His work is the greatest single contribution to our knowledge of the vascular system after [William] Harvey, and led to the development of the blood-pressure measuring instruments now in universal use." - Garrison-Morton, 765 (for the first ediion). [ q. v. : Pritzel 3700 & Bedford 237; Horblit 45b; Bradley I, 162 (vol. 1 only) ] "[ Hales ] was the first to realize that carbon dioxide was supplied to plants by the air and formed a vital part of the plant's food supply." - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 189. [ Sowerby 709 - this edition, but "no copy of this volume [ 2 ] was seen for collation." . This work is on Jefferson's list of agricultural books recommended to W. C. Nicholas on December 18, 1809, for purchase for the Library of Congress.: ]. There are 19 copperplate engravings in vol. 1. Note: with the imprimatur of Sir Isaac Newton and Hans Sloane respectively. Third Edition with Amendments / Second Edition, Corrected. …
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- Title
- STATICAL ESSAYS. 2 volumes Containing Vegetable Staticks; Or, an Account of the Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. /
- Author
- HALES, Stephen
- Publisher
- W. Innys and R. Manby, T. Woodward, J. Peele 1738, 1740, London
- Publication year
- 1738
- Condition
- Very Good
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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