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.
- Publication
- 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 4, 2024.
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great, that they haue the name of seas, as ye great lake called Hircane, or Caspiā sea. These lakes sometymes vnlade thē¦selues into the sea, by small riuers, som¦tymes by passages vnder the earth.
The cause of the swiftnes of ryuers, is double, for they are swyfte either for the great aboundaunce of waters, or els because they runne downe from an hylly place, as the ryuer Rhene falleth downe from the toppe of wonderfull hyghe hylles.
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Lakes.