Author: HALES, St.
Title: La statique des végétaux, et celle des animaux;...
Description: Paris, l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779. 4to. In 2 vols. W. 20 fold. ills. Cont. gilt. mottled clf., w. spine labels (sl. rubb.). [....]. (XXXII, 390; XXVIII, 256 pp.). DSB VI, 55/48: Part 1 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', the translation of Buffon is an influential French translation, which has the famous 'Preface du traducteur, in which Buffon praises the experimental method, and includes Hales apendix of 1733.

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