Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderful history of the generation of meteors. And blazing-stars. Particularly describing the temperatures and qualities of the four elements; the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars. Shewing the efficient and final causes of comets, earthquakes, blazing-stars, deluges, epidemical diseases, and prodiges of precedent times; their presages of a weather-glass / Rendred plain and useful both for sea and land, by the industry and observation of Tho. Wilsford, gent.

  • Willsford, Thomas.
Date:
1665
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Credit: Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderful history of the generation of meteors. And blazing-stars. Particularly describing the temperatures and qualities of the four elements; the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars. Shewing the efficient and final causes of comets, earthquakes, blazing-stars, deluges, epidemical diseases, and prodiges of precedent times; their presages of a weather-glass / Rendred plain and useful both for sea and land, by the industry and observation of Tho. Wilsford, gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Faas Siem BANE Sie ae Z A preface to the Reader. part) continued by fucceffion tothefe times ; willrecord a few. a grand contemplator of Nature,aud fo judi= cious a proficient in this Art, that be faidhe couldberich when he wouldsby prognofticating Weathers temper in fncceeding years, front thence prefaging plenty, or.[(carcity of Fruitss after him, divers: made obfervations of the Stars afpedts, and-thofe grave Experience ratified as in relation to particular Countries or regions, after a long tra of time, this knowledge was made more univerfal by being contraed int general Rules,and thofe again much illuftrated by the indufiry of Ptolo= maus the Alexandrian, whofe fame (urvives bis Funeral : Since bis time wery many have writ of this Subjed, in a continual fuccelfion, unto this prefent Age, yet never render d fill now in our vulgar tongue. | And that I may pleafe all Sexes and Ages, didions aré here inferted, from ihe Heavens fo the Elements; ‘from the lofty Pine tothe humble Shrub, azd little Vegetables, from Birds avd Beafts and Fifhes in tbe deep, down to ibe Minerals inthe Earths pregvant yom,