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Title: 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 chymio-statical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society
Year: 1727 (1720s)
Authors: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761 Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 2-1733, engraver Royal Society (Great Britain) Burndy Library, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plant physiology Air
Publisher: London : Printed for W. and J. Innys ... and T. Woodward ...
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