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HALES, STEPHEN. Vegetable Staticks; or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. 19 engraved plates. [7], vii, [2], 376
HALES, STEPHEN. Vegetable Staticks; or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. 19 engraved plates. [7], vii, [2], 376 pages * Statical Essays: Containing Haemastaticks; or, An Account of Some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals. xxii, [26], 361, [23] pages. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf, sizes not uniform; small piece torn off fore edge of title in first work, lower margin of page 89 soiled. London: W. and J. Innys and T. Woodward, 1727; W. Innys, R. Manby, and T. Woodward, 1733
- Notes: first editions of Hales's pioneering works on plant physiology and blood pressure, which he was the first to measure using a manometer of his own invention. "His work is the greatest single contribution to our knowledge of the vascular system after Harvey, and led to the development of the blood-pressure measuring instruments now in universal use"--Garrison-Morton 765. Grolier/Horblit 45a-b; Norman 970; Printing and the Mind of Man 189.
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