4. Pyramidall Pillars are nothing differing from the other, unlesse that the exhalation have more earthly mat∣ter in it below, and not so much above: for when the lighter and thinner parts are ascended to the top, then the grosser, heavier, and thicker are left in the bottome: which makes it therefore of fashion great beneath and small above.
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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"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 May 2, 2024.
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Article 4. Of Pyramidall burning Pillars.
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Article 5. Of Flashings, Streams, or Darts