The pocket encyclopaedia of natural phenomena; for the use of mariners, shepherds, gardeners, husbandmen, and others; being a compendium of prognostications of the weather, signs of the seasons, periods of plants, and other phenomena in natural history and philosophy / compiled principally from the manuscripts and ms. journals of the late T. F. Forster ... By T. [I.M.] Forster.

  • Forster, Thomas Furley, 1761-1825.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The pocket encyclopaedia of natural phenomena; for the use of mariners, shepherds, gardeners, husbandmen, and others; being a compendium of prognostications of the weather, signs of the seasons, periods of plants, and other phenomena in natural history and philosophy / compiled principally from the manuscripts and ms. journals of the late T. F. Forster ... By T. [I.M.] Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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