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An account of a surprizing meteor, seen in the air, March the 6th, 1715/16. at night. Containing, I. A description of this meteor, from the author's own observations. II. Some historical accounts of the like meteors before; with extracts from such letters, and accounts of this, as the author has receiv'd. III. The principal phenomena of this meteor. IV. Conjectures for their solution. V. Reasons why our solutions are so imperfect. VI. Inferences and observations from the premises. By William Whiston, M.A.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1716- Books
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The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1712- Books
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The universal Library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1722- Books
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The new book of knowledge. Shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations; with the strange events that befall men, women and children, born under them. Together with the husbandman's practice: Or, Prognostication for Ever. With the Shepherd's perpetual Prognostication for the Weather. Also A brief Discourse of the Natural Causes of Meteors; with an Account of several Remarkable Earthquakes, Rains, Thunders, Lightnings, Comets, Blazing-Stars, &c. that have happen'd in several Countries. And observations on the weather, and Signs foretelling Rain. A brief Collection of all the Members of Man Physiognomiz'd: The Signification of Moles on Man or Woman: The Interpretation of Dreams: And Pythagoras's Wheel of Fortune. With several other secrets of art and nature, not to be sound in any other Book of this Kind.
Godfridus.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspersed with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The gardener's dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienced Gardeners of the Present Age. Interspersed with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with Copper Plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors ... / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford.
Willsford, Thomas.Date: 1658- Books
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The gardeners dictionary: containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden, as also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; According to the Practice of the Most Experienc'd Gardners of the Present Age. Interspers'd with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers, proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best Natural Philosophers. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden at Chelsea, and F. R. S.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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A new theory of comets; (laws of motion,) &c. plainly shewing, that they are not solid, compact, fixed and durable bodies like those of the Planets: But that they are Solar Meteors, or Exhalations of the same nature with our smoke, which flying to a certain distance from the Sun, thicken (or draw together) to such a Mass, that at last their own Gravity forces them back into its Blaze; where they no sooner arrive but they take Fire, and are violently thrown off in right Lines thro' the Universe, till their own Flames have exhausted their Substance. - The whole being freed from the absurd Opinion, and Error of Sir Isaac Newton, upon this Subject: To which are added, several debates on the above, with the author's answer: Till at last this Theory, now stands confirmed beyond all Contradiction. By Michael Woods, F.R.S.
Woods, Michael.Date: MDCCLXVIII [1768]- Books
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The philosophical grammar; being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or natural philosophy. In four parts. Part I. Somatology, treateth of the universal Nature and Properties of Matter, or Substance, and the specifick Qualities of natural Bodies. Part II. Cosmology, exhibiteth a general View of the Universe, and its great constituent Parts; the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, fixed Stars, &c. Part III. Aerology, compriseth the Philosophy of the Atmosphere, shewing the wonderful Nature and Properties of the Air, Wind, Meteors, and other Phaenomena therein. Part IV. Geology, containeth a Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe, in all its Parts and Productions; as Minerals, Metals, Stones, &c. The Laws of Fluios; the Sea, its Tides, &c. Of Rivers, Springs, &c. Of Vegetation, and the Nature of Plants, Trees, &c. Of the Parts of animal Bodies 5 and a Survey of the Nature of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Infects, Reptiles, Shell-Animals, &c. Illustrated with twenty-six copper-plates. By Benj. Martin, [greek text]
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The philosophical grammar; being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or, natural philosophy. In four parts. Part I. Somatology, treateth of the universal Nature and Properties of Matter, or Substance, and the specific Qualities of natural Bodies. Part II. Cosmology, exhibiteth a general View of the Universe, and its great constituent Parts; the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, fixed Stars, &c. Part III. Aerology, compriseth the Philosophy of the Atmosphere, shewing the wonderful Nature and Properties of the Air, Wind, Meteors, and other Phaenomena therein. Part IV. Geology, containeth a Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe in all its Parts and Productions: As Minerals, Metals, Stones, &c. The Laws of Fluids; the Sea, its Tides, &c. Of Rivers, Springs, &c. Of Vegetation, and the Nature of Plants, Trees, &c. Of the Parts of animal Bodies; and a Survey of the Nature of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Shell-Animals, &c. By Benj. Martin, [greek text]
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
The borderland of science : a series of familiar dissertations on stars, planets, and meteors; sun and moon; earthquakes; flying-machines; coal; gambling; ghosts; &c. / by Richard A. Proctor.
Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.Date: 1873- Pictures
The head of John Wilkes, the Lord Mayor Brass Crosby and the recently elected sheriff, Frederick Bull decorated with civic chains pass as meteors through the sky into the mouth of oblivion. Engraving, 1771.
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The philosophical grammar; being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or natural philosophy. In four parts. Part I. Somatology, treateth of the universal Nature and Properties of Matter, or Substance, and the specifick Qualities of natural Bodies. Part II. Cosmology, exhibiteth a general View of the Universe, and its great constituent Parts; the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, fixed Stars, &c. Part III. Aerology, compriseth the Philosophy of the Atmosphere, shewing the wonderful Nature and Properties of the Air, Wind, Meteors, and other Phaenomena therein. Part IV. Geology, containeth a Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe, in all its Parts and Productions; as Minerals, Metals, Stones, &c. The Laws of Fluids; the Sea, its Tides, &c. Of Rivers, Springs, &c. Of Vegetation, and the Nature of Plants, Trees, &c. Of the Parts of animal Bodies; and a Survey of the Nature of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Shell-Animals, &c. The fourth edition, with alterations, corrections, and very large additions by way of notes. By Benj. Martin, [greek text]
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1753- Books
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The philosophical grammar; being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or natural philosophy. In four parts. Part I. Somatology, treateth of the universal Nature and Properties of Matter, or Substance, and the specifick Qualities of natural Bodies. Part II. Cosmology, exhibiteth a general View of the Universe, and its great constituent Parts; the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, fixed Stars, &c. Part III. Aerology, compriseth the Philosophy of the Atmosphere, shewing the wonderful Nature and Properties of the Air, Wind, Meteors, and other Phaenomena therein. Part IV. Geology, containeth a Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe, in all its Parts and Productions; as Minerals, Metals, Stones, &c. The Laws of Fluids; the Sea, its Tides, &c. Of Rivers, Springs, &c. Of Vegetation, and the Nature of Plants, Trees, &c. Of the Parts of animal Bodies; and a Survey of the Nature of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Shell-Animals, &c. The fifth edition, with alterations, corrections, and very large additions, by way of notes. By Benj. Martin, [greek]
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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The philosophical grammar; being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or, natural philosophy. In four parts. Part I. Somatology, treateth of the universal Nature and Properties of Matter, or Substance, and the specific Qualities of natural Bodies. Part II. Cosmology, exhibiteth a general View of the Universe, and its great constituent Parts; the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, fixed Stars,&c. Part III. Aerology, compriseth the Philosophy of the Atmosphere, shewing the wonderful Nature and Properties of the Air, Wind, Meteors, and other Phaenomena therein. Part IV. Geology, containeth a Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe, in all its Parts and Productions; as Minerals, Metals, Stones, &c. The Laws of Fluids; the Sea, its Tides, &c. Of Rivers, Springs, &c. Of Vegetation, and the Nature of Plants, Trees, &c. Of the Parts of animal Bodies; and a Survey of the Nature of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Shell-Animals, &c. The seventh edition, with alterations, corrections, and very large additions, by way of notes. By Benj. Martin, [greek text]
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The philosophical grammar; being a view of the present state of experimented physiology, or natural philosophy. In four parts. Part I. Somatology, treateth of the universal Nature and Properties of Matter, or Substance, and the specifick Qualities of natural Bodies. Part II. Cosmology, exhibitech a general View of the Universe, and its great constituent Parts; the Sun, Moon, Planets, Comets, fixed Stars, &c. Part III. Aerology, compriseth the Philosophy of the Atmosphere, shewing the wonderful Nature and Properties of the Air, Wind, Meteors, and other Phaenomena therein. Part IV. Geology, containeth a Philosophical View of the terraqueous Globe, in all its Parts and Productions; as Minerals, Metals, Stones, &c. The Laws of Fluids; the Sea, its Tides, &c. Of Rivers, Springs, &c. Of Vegetation, and the Nature of Plants, Trees, &c. Of the Parts of animal Bodies; and a Survey of the Nature of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Shell-Animals, &c. The sixth edition, with alterations, corrections, and very large additions, by way of notes. By Benj. Martin, [Greek]
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The perpetual calculator: or, time's universal standard. In three parts. I. A plain and easy Introduction to Chronology since its last Improvement, containing an historical Account of the Old and New Stile, with plausible Reasons for changing the same. Rules for finding the Age and Change of the Moon, and whatever depends thereon, for ever. II. An Account of the Solar System, explaining the Laws and Means whereby the Planets are preserved in their Orbits: The Cause of Eclipses, and how to calculate them perpetually: A Synopsis of Comets, shewing how to predict the Appearance of four remarkable ones: A Synopsis of Astronomy, with Rules for discovering the Motions of the Celestial Bodies, how to acquire their Magnitudes, periodical Revolutions, diurnal Motions, Distances, &c. Invention of the Zodiac: Rules for the Equation of Time, &c. III. Pneumatics and Hydrostatics, or the Science of Fluids displayed; containing the Doctrine of Tides, Generation of Meteors, and Changes of the Weather. To which is annexed, an Appendix, Containing, Several useful Articles relative to those important Sciences. By R. Wetherald, philomath.
Wetherald, Rowland, 1727-1791.Date: 1760- Pictures
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Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky. Coloured wood engraving, 1868.
Date: 1868Reference: 46245i- Books
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A most pleasant prospect into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kinde of meteors. As well fiery and airy, as watry and earthly ... / [William Fulke].
Fulke, William, 1538-1589Date: [1640]- Pictures
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Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint after H. Robinson, 1783.
Robinson, Henry, active approximately 1783.Date: 14 Oct.r 1783Reference: 46243i- Pictures
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Astronomy: a meteor in the night sky over London. Mezzotint by M.C. Wyatt, 1850.
Wyatt, Matthew Cotes, 1777-1862.Date: May 1 1850Reference: 46244i- Books
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A general chronological history of the air, weather, seasons, meteors, &c. in sundry places and different times; ... with some of their most remarkable effects on animal (especially human) bodies, and vegetables. In two volumes. ...
Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772.Date: 1749- Books
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A discourse of logomachys, or controversys about words, so common among learned men. To which is added, a dissertation concerning meteors of stile, or false sublimity. Both written in Latin, By Samuel Werenfelsius of Basil, and translated into English.
Werenfels, Samuel, 1657-1740.Date: M.DCC.XI. [1711]- Books
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A discourse of logomachys, or controversys about words, so common among learned men. To which is added, a dissertation concerning meteors of stile, or false sublimity. Both written in Latin, by Samuel Werenfelsius of Basil, and translated into English.
Werenfels, Samuel, 1657-1740.Date: M.DCC.XI. [1711]