Author:Stephen Hales

Works

 * Vegetable Staticks (1727)
 * Philosophical experiments: containing useful, and necessary instructions for such as undertake long voyages at sea. Shewing how sea-water may be made fresh and wholsome: and how fresh water may be preserv'd sweet. How biscuit, corn, &c. may be secured from the weevel, meggots, and other insects. And flesh preserv'd in hot climates, by salting animals whole. To which is added, an account of several experiments and observations on chalybeate or steel-waters, 1739
 * A description of ventilators, 1743

Works about Hales

 * Darwin, Francis (1913), "Stephen Hales 1677—1761" in Oliver, Francis Wall (ed.) Makers of British botany.