6. Caprae saltantes, or dancing Goats, are caused when* 1.1 an Exhalation hot and drie is so compact, that on the one side or other it hath some parts which appeare as the appendices of it, or joyned to the main Exhalation by an other kinde of Exhalation farre thinner then the main one, so that the fire running on the main part, and as it were outright, by the way it cannot but seem to skip unto those parts on the sides, inflaming them also; which, because it is variously and nimbly performed, makes the flame seem to leap or dance, just as wanton goats use to do when they are dancing or playing.
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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"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 16, 2025.
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Article 6. Dancing Goats.