Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderful history of the generation of meteors. And blazing-stars. Particularly describing the temperatures and qualities of the four elements; the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars. Shewing the efficient and final causes of comets, earthquakes, blazing-stars, deluges, epidemical diseases, and prodiges of precedent times; their presages of a weather-glass / Rendred plain and useful both for sea and land, by the industry and observation of Tho. Wilsford, gent.
- Willsford, Thomas
- Date:
- 1665
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderful history of the generation of meteors. And blazing-stars. Particularly describing the temperatures and qualities of the four elements; the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars. Shewing the efficient and final causes of comets, earthquakes, blazing-stars, deluges, epidemical diseases, and prodiges of precedent times; their presages of a weather-glass / Rendred plain and useful both for sea and land, by the industry and observation of Tho. Wilsford, gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![| | The Weathers Predizion, 85 | be hindred by fome other Planet of necr’ affinity to che Sun; and the.contrary when, 5 is retrograde, | and Lucifer, expe& then very much rain in the be- | ‘ginning ofthis quarter, and in the end of Winter | but lietle or none at all. |. This general conclufion Haly doth propound | thus, Cap. 4 pari-a. If, & be retrograde in this | quarter, it doth prefage a moift and rainy Winter: | one, Planet retrograde. when in 3¢ with>©® argues drought, e(pecially. at the end of this feafon, | going out of * into; it there be two Planets retrograde, it prognofticates temperate but moift weather; but if three, an abundant deal of wet; } andif four Planets bein their motions retrograde, | ic will prefage a deluge. And here ends the ob- fervations upon the four Seafonsor quarters of the year; the Su» entering any of the four Cardinal points, as 7, 5, + and W. Leupold. He moft tempeftious Conftellations are thefes Orion. Ar@urus,and the Northern Crewx ; the moit windy are the Goat, and Kids, in Erichtonius 5 the moft watery are the Hyades, and the 7. Stars calied the Pleiades; the caufe:s of viclent heat, are Regulus, or the Lions heart, and both the Dog-fters, as Sirius and Procyon: Thete are the chief and principal Afterifmes obferved in prefaging the Airs mutability; yet there be many more Con- ftellations of note in this kind, although not fo G3 genera]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30324452_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


