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 June 15, 2024.
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¶Of the generation of the impression, called burned stoble or sparcles of fire.
THe generation of this Meteore is this,* 1.1 whan the matter of the Exhalation is in all partes a lyke thynne, but not compac∣ted or knit together, then some parte of it being caried vp into the highest region, by the fiery heate is set on fier before another part, that commeth vp after it, and so be∣ing kindled by lytle and lytle, it flyeth a∣brooode lyke sparkles out of a chymney, in so much that the common people suppose, that an infinit number of starres fal down where as it is nothing els, but the Exhala∣tion that is thinne kindled in many partes, sparkling as when sawe dust or coole dust is cast into the fyre.