Natures secrets. Or, The admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors : Particularly describing, the temperatures and qualities of the four elements, the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars: the efficient and finall causes of comets, earthquakes, deluges, epidemicall diseases, and prodigies of precedent times; registred by the students of nature. Their conjecturall presages of the weather, from the planets mutuall aspects, and sublunary bodies: with the proportions and observations on the weather-glass, with philosophicall paraphrases rendred explicitely, usefull at sea and land. / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford, Gent.

  • Willsford, Thomas
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1658
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Natures secrets
Admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors

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London : Printed for Nath. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, 1658.

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16 unnumbered pages, 199 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : portrait, illustrations (metal cut, woodcut).

Notes

The portrait of the author is signed: Ro: Vaughan fecit.
Final [9] p. = [1] page of errata and [8] pages of advertisement for Nath. Brook.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug:".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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Wing (2nd ed.) W2875.
Thomason E.1775[2].

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 221:E1775[2]) s1999 miun s

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