A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing sterres, shooting starres, flames in the ayre &c. tho[n]der, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne dewe, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs.

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Title: A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing sterres, shooting starres, flames in the ayre &c. tho[n]der, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne dewe, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs.
Author: Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
Publication: Londini :: [Printed by William Griffith],; Anno. 1563.
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Subject terms: Meteorology -- Early works to 1800.; Meteors -- Early works to 1800.; Metals -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing sterres, shooting starres, flames in the ayre &c. tho[n]der, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne dewe, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01313.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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¶ Of the Pyramidall pyller lyke a spire or broched steeple.

THis sharpe poynted piller,* 1.1 is genera∣ted in the hyghest region of the ayre, and after this sort. When the Exhalatiō hath much earthly matter in it, the ligh¦ter partes and thinner (as their nature is) ascending vpwarde, the grosser, hea∣uier, and thycker, abyde together in the bottome, and so is it of fashion great be¦neath, and small pointed aboue, and be∣ing set on fire it is so séen, and thereof hath his name.

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* 1.1

Of spires.

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