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HALES, STEPHEN. Statical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. 19 engraved plates. [6], viii, [2], 376 pages * Statical Essays: containing Haemastaticks; or, An Account of Some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals. xxii, [26], 361, [23] pages. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, bindings not uniform, some wear to spines, front cover joints cracked, cords intact; text in first volume browned but plates clean. London: W. Innys et al., 1731; 1733
Second edition of the first, and first edition of the second, of Hales's pioneering works on plant physiology and blood pressure, which he was the first to measure using a manometer of his own invention. "His work is the greatest single contribution to our knowledge of the vascular system after Harvey, and led to the development of the blood-pressure measuring instruments now in universal use"--Garrison-Morton 765. Grolier/Horblit 45a-b; Norman 970; Printing and the Mind of Man 189.
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