The complete weather guide; a collection of practical observations for prognosticating the weather, drawn from plants, animals, inanimate bodies, and also by means of philosophical instruments; including the Shepherd of Banbury' rules, explained on philosophical principles. With an appendix of miscellaneous observations on meteorology, a curious botanical clock, &c. &c. &c / By Joseph Taylor.

Joseph Taylor

Date:: 1812

Credit: The complete weather guide; a collection of practical observations for prognosticating the weather, drawn from plants, animals, inanimate bodies, and also by means of philosophical instruments; including the Shepherd of Banbury' rules, explained on philosophical principles. With an appendix of miscellaneous observations on meteorology, a curious botanical clock, &c. &c. &c / By Joseph Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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66 66 66 és 4 66 66 6¢ to observe what hasa reference to the. flock under his care, who spends all his days, and many of his nights in the open air, under the wide-spread canopy of Heaven, is obliged to take particular notice of the alterations of the weather ; and when he comes to takea pleasure ‘in making such observations, it isamazing how great a progress he makes in them, and to how great a certainty he arrives at last, hy mere dint of comparing signs and events, and cor. recting one remark by another. Every thing, . in time, becomes to hima sort of weather-gage. The sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds, the winds, the mists, the trees, the flowers, the herbs, and almost every animal with which he is acquainted, al] these become, to such a per- son, instruments of real knowledge.” As the shepherd’s rules were originally pub. BQ

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