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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    ) HELE of Meteors. Such things asare fer forth of the betokening of Comets are of two forts: The firf*s of natural. The fecond of Civil or) stick EffeQs, They are faid to betoken Drought, Barrennefs of the Earth,andPettilence, Drought, becaufe a Comet cannot be generated without great heat. and much. moifiure is confumed in the burning of it, Barrennefs,becaufe the fatnefs of the Earth is drawn.up, whereof the Comet confifteth. | 0 Peftilence, for fo muchas this kind of Exhalation corrnpteth the..Air, which infecteth the bodies of menand beafts, The fecond fort might well be o- Generally it is noted of all Hiftorio- Comets, moft commonly follow great they betoken (fay fome ) Wars, Se-