1. FAx, which is a Torch or Fire-brand, or as a lighted* 1.1 candle, is an exhalation hot and drie, drawn be∣yond the middle Region of the aire, where being arrived it is set on fire (as are all exhalations that come there) partly by their own heat, and partly by the heat of that place: and because the matter of the exhalation is long and not broad, and being equally compact, and fired at
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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- Swan, John, d. 1671.
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- [Cambridge] :: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel,] the printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge,
- 1635.
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- Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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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 17, 2025.
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the one end, it burneth like a torch or candle, untill the whole whereof it consisteth be consumed. And why it should burn at the one end rather then at the other, is found to be because it is long and standeth upright, ha∣ving the most of its aspiring matter in the top; and in this station ascending up, it comes to passe, that when the upper end doth present it self to the heat of the upper Region, it is fired, and so consumeth by degrees, even as by degrees it ascendeth, or peepeth into that hot place.
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* 1.1
Article 1. Of burning Tor∣ches.