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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