An history of the wonderful things of nature, set forth in ten severall classes. Wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens. II. Of the elements. III. Of meteors. IV. Of minerals. V. Of plants. VI. Of birds. VII. Of fourfooted beasts. VIII. Of insects ... IX. Of fishes. X. Of man ... now rendred into English, by a person of quality. [i.e. John Rowland] / [Joannes Jonstonus].

  • Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675
Date:
1657
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Credit: An history of the wonderful things of nature, set forth in ten severall classes. Wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens. II. Of the elements. III. Of meteors. IV. Of minerals. V. Of plants. VI. Of birds. VII. Of fourfooted beasts. VIII. Of insects ... IX. Of fishes. X. Of man ... now rendred into English, by a person of quality. [i.e. John Rowland] / [Joannes Jonstonus]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chap. 5- 0/ Shh* ^5 the like to have happened MndctCo/'/jfami/ie Coproz/ymus: {o in the P(J«- r/V/^ Sea, and the adjoyning. Mariarjus Scotus. In the year 32.of Charles the Great, there was a great and tnoft bitter Froft, fo that the Pontick Sea was frozen 100 miles in the Eaft, where it was 50 cubits from top to bottom. In the year 15 25. the winter wasfo cruel, that in Brabant an infinite company of Eelcs by reafon of the Ice went forth of the Lakes, which is a wonderfull thing,and hid thcmfelves in Hay-ricks, and periihed there with extremity of cold, Robertus de Monte, The Trees had hardly any leafs afterwards in Ma-j, Sometimes the winters are fo calm too. In the year 1225. in December the Peach Tree budded: In ii8<?. in December and January, Crowes and other birds hatched their Eggs with young. But thde divers parts of the year for length and duration comes from a divers pofition. They that live under the Pole are ’tis proba¬ ble in perpetual cold; and they are more hot that live under the Equi- nodtiall. ' They under the Equinodiall have a double moll pleafant winter, and a double Spring. He that would know more of this may read Majolm CoUoqu, de ^ropietat'. locor, Attic. 6» Of the San’s jhadojv, TWo things chiefly are obfervablc concerning the Suns fhadow^ the operation and the diverfity. It can hardly be faid how great . it is. Men skill’d in the Opticks have deferibed it more acurately. It {hews the reafon of Eclipfes, the Suns magnitude, the variety of Ecccntricks, the condition of time hath been demonftrated by it. Men are taught thereby to define the climates and parallells,to prove the Earth to be round, and that the Earths Globe hands cxa6Ily in the midft of theUniverfe, to know the Earths magnitude : &c. Exam¬ ples (hew the diverfity; Thofethat dwell Northward between the Tropickof Cancer andtheArdick Circle, their Noon-lhadowes are call Northward, and to the Southern people 5outhward. They of Finmarch stndiji'oenland, and that pafle the degree of elevation 66iiQt the fhadows run round about them ; Gauriem in Geograph, In Syene a Town ahoxc Alexandria, 5000 furlongs, at noon-day Oil the folftice, there is no fliadow at all, and a pit was made to make experiment of it, and the Sun (hined to every part in it. Pliny, 1. 2, c. 73. And inabove the River Hifpafis, the fame falls out at the fame time, as Oneficritus hath recorded. In thelfland Mercer which is the chief of the Country; the tliadows fail twice a year, and in Summer they are calf South¬ wards ; in winter toward the North. In the famc,in the moft famous Haven of Fatales, the^un rifeth on the right hand, the lhadowes fly Southward. It islaftly manifeft, that in 2- City of the Tro- glodytes, and from thence for 4820 furlongs in the fame Country, in the Town of Ptolemais, which is built on the brink of the red 5ca, at