Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Statics: or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. Being An Essay towards a Natural

Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Statics: or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. Being An Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation: Of Use to those who are curious in the Culture and Improvement of Gardening, &c, 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. Vol. Iby Stephen Hales, D.D., F.R.S.The Second Edition, with Amendments. London, W. Innys, T. Woodward, and J. Peele, 1731 This is the Second ed 8vo of Vegetable Statics but Vol. I only (complete in itself) of Statical Essays: 3 leaves, viii, (4), 376 pp with 19 engraved plates (Plate 17 is very well known for depicting the capture of gases). Vol. II (Statical Essays, containing Haemostaticks) first appeared in 1733. Gilt-edged leather, front hinges loose but solid. See Neville I p 578: The amended second edition of Vegetable Staticks but the first with the general title Statical Essays.The first (1727 edition) toimprove techniques for collecting and quantitating gases over water although Hales did not differentiate gases from common air. (See A. Greenberg, From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2007, pp 269-272).