Vegetable Staticks: or An Account of Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables; Being an Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation

Book Description

Printed for W. and J. Innys... and T. Woodward, London, 1727. Very good: covers worn; small loss at bottom corner of title-page, edges of leaves A1-A3 browned, sparse foxing. 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, [7], vii, [2], 376 pages, contemporary panelled calf, expertly rebacked, red morocco titling-label , With 19 engraved plates. First Edition of the first volume of Hales' Statical Essays. In Vegetable Staticks "... we see the genius of discovery and the sound original reasoning powers of the great explorers of nature in Newton's age. [Hales'] book was the first work devoted to a complete account of the nutrition of plants and the movements of the sap in them. In it an abundance of new experiments and observations, measurements and calculations combine to form a living picture of the whole subject. Permeated with the spirit of Newton's age, he was not content with giving a clear idea of the phenomena of vegetation, but sought to trace them back to mechano-physical laws as then understood. Hales is the last of the great naturalists who laid the foundations of vegetable physiology." - Julius von Sachs, History of Botany 1530-1860.

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