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The Clouds.
A vapour 1. ascendeth from the water.
From it a Cloud 2. is made, and a white Mist 3.
neer the Earth.
Rain 4 and a small shower distilleth out of a Cloud, drop by drop:
Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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- Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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- Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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Which being frozen, is Hail; 5. half-frozen, is snow; 6. being warm is Mel-dew.
In a Rainy Cloud, set over against the Sun, the Rain-bow 7. appeareth.
A drop falling into the water, maketh a Bubble. 8 many Bubbles make froth. 9.
Frozen water, is called Ice, 10. Dew congealed, a white Frost.
Thunder is made of a brimstone-like vapour, which breaking out of a cloud with lightning, 11. thundereth and strik∣eth with lightening.