Author: HALES, S.
Title: La statique des végétaux, et celle des animaux, ...
Description: Paris, L 'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779. - 1780. 2 vols. in 1. 20 engr. fold. pls. 19th c. half vellum over comb marbled brds., title in ink on spine [in red and black]. . (XXXII, 390; XXVIII, 256 pp.). Part. I is Buffon's translation of the 'Vegetable staticks', revue par M. Sigaud de la Fond, and part II is Boissier de Sauvage's translation of the 'Haemastaticks'. With the famous 'Préface du traducteur', in which Buffon praises the experimental method and Hales's appendix of 1733:

Keywords: botanie botany