11. Draco volans, or a flying Dragon, called by some* 1.1 a Fire-drake, is a Fierie Exhalation whose matter is thick and as it were hard tempered together; or rather not so hard as conglutinously conjoyned: which lump, ascend∣ing to the Region of cold, is forcibly beaten down or back again; by the force of which motion it is set on fire; and not onely fired, but also bent and violently made crooked: For (as hath been said) the matter of it hang∣eth so conglutinously together, that the repulse divides it not, but by a strange encounter moulds it into such a fa∣shion as (seen afarre off) looks much like b 1.2 a Dragon. This is the opinion of the most. But some say that it is done into this fashion between two clouds of differing natures, the one hot, the other cold: and so perhaps it is sometimes made.
Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.
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- Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.
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"Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13217.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.
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* 1.1
Artic. 11. Fire-drakes, or flying Dragons.
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b 1.2
Paracelsus is perswaded that it is a fierie living creature bred in the element of the Fire, even as flies in the Aire, fish in the Water, and worms in the Earth: affirm∣ing that it is of à short life like the Salamander, &c. But if this be not ridiculous, then nothing is.