Weather forecasting - Early works to 1800
Works from the collections
8 works
- Books
- Online
Perpetuall and naturall prognostications of the change of weather : Gathered out of diuers ancient and late writers, and placed in order for the common good of all men. Newly translated out of Italian into English by I.F.
Date: 1591- Books
- Online
Fly 1657. An almanacke, for the yeare of our Lord God, 1657 : Being the first after bissextile or leap-year. And from the creation of the world, 5661. Calculated for the merid. of Kings-Lynn, where the pole is elevated 52 degrees, 43 min. above the horizon, and may very well serve for any other part of England.
FlyDate: 1657- Books
- Online
Mr. Lillies late prophecy come to pass : Concerning the present vvar, and the late unseasonableness of the weather. Wherein it is made manifest, whatsoever he has prognosticated of the present year, 1673. Is in great probability of proving true, from the events that have already been observed. Licensed, according to order, Iuly 10. 1673.
William LillyDate: 1673- E-journals
- Online
The shepherd of banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience . By which you may know, the weather for several days to come, and in some cases, for months. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alteratons, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. By John Claridge, shepherd.
Claridge, John.Date: M,DCC,LII. [1752]- Books
- Online
A diurnal speculum, for the year of our Lord God, 1684 : Being the bissextile, or leap-year, with annual and Mon[thly] predictions & progn[o]stications astrologically handled. (Written and design'd for the press in Aug, 1683. but its publication prevented by the printers t[e]merity.) Wherein was fore-told, in D[e]cemb. 1683. the late and unheard of frost; with the events that may probably and suddenly ensue thereon. By Richard Kirkby, student in astrology and physick.
Richard KirbyDate: 1684