Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity.

  • Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
Date:
1670
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Credit: Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this purpofe two wayes confidered. One-way, asit is mean and tempe- rate ; Otherwife,asit is vehement and burning, The means is by which he dtaweth vapors out of che water, and exhalations out of che earth, and not only draweth them out,but alfo lifceth them up very bigh from the earth into the air, where they are turned into di« vers kinds of Meteors. The burning heat-of the Sunis, by. | which he burnech) diffipateth and con- _ {umeth the vapors and exhalations be- fore he draweth chem up, fo that of them-no GMeteorsican be generated. Thefe two heats:proceed from the Sun, either in refped@ of the place, or the time; but moft properly according to the cafting of his: beams either di- reGly or indire@ly. In place where the Suns beames ftrike dire@ly againft the earth and the water, the heac.is fo great,that it burn- éth up the Exhalations and Vapors, fo ' chat there are no fiery A4Zeteors, much lefs watery : asit isin the South parts ofthe world, under and near.to the Equinoctiall line. But in places where the beames are caft