The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy / By John Claridge.

  • Claridge, John (Shepherd)
Date:
1744
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Credit: The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy / By John Claridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VIII. If they rife to the Hill tops*—Rain in a Day or two, WHEN Mills are very heavy in themfelves, and rife only by the Adion of that pro- trufive Force, exerted by the fubterranean Fire, they can rife no higher than where the Gravita¬ tion becomes fuperior to that protrulive Force, for then they defcend again by their own Weight, and this Occafions the Appearance mentioned in the Obfervation of their hanging upon Hill tops where they are very foon condenfed, and fall down in Rain. There was formerly a very idle and ill ground¬ ed Diftindion between moift and dry Exhalations, whereas in Truth all Exhalations are moift, or in other Words are watry Steams thrown off by Bodies refpedfully dry, and the former Diftinc- tion was invented only to folve thefe Phenome¬ na of which we have been fpeaking, that is the Mill rifing and difperfmg without Rain, and the Mill condens’d and refolv’d into Rain, which as I have (hewn may be much better explain’d with¬ out any fuch Diftindion. Age-
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