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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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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Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
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Londini :: [Printed by William Griffith],
Anno. 1563.
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Meteorology -- Early works to 1800.
Meteors -- Early works to 1800.
Metals -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 May 5, 2024.
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¶ Of Fyre scattered in the ayre.
FYre scattered in the ayre, or illumina∣tions, are generated in the lowest re∣gion of the ayre, when very drye and whote Exhalations, are drawen vp and méeting with colde cloudes, are sent back agayne, which motions setteth thē a fyre, whose partes, being not equally thycke or ioyned together, séeme as
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though fyer were scattered in the ayre. Yea sometimes, the whole ayre séemeth to burne, as though it would raine fyre from heauen, & so it hath come to passe, burning both cities and townes. Then iudge, how easy it was for God to raine fire vpō Sodome and Gomor, for their sinnes and wickednes.