Abstract
VIII. An account of a book entitul'd vegetable staticks: 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 chymico-statical experiments; which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society, &c. By Stephen Hales, B. D. F. R. S. Rector of Farringdon, Hampshire, and Minister of Teddington, Middlesex. The account by the Rev. John Theoph. Desaguliers, LL. D. R. S. S. As the antients us’d to say, that geometry and arithmetick are the wings of a mathematician; so a mechanical hand, and a mathematical head are the necessary qualifications of an experimental philosopher.
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