Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors ... / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford.

  • Willsford, Thomas
Date:
1658
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Credit: Natures secrets. Or, the admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors ... / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    |- fhflamed, and then nourifhed with more exhalati- ons (continually drawn unto it) that it burns. and > converts it elf into divers forms, according: vo the - difpofition of the matter, as refembling Dragous, \ Lances, Torches, Comets or Blazing Stars, &c. | And fome again that fcems to fall and flide through the dir, the lighteft part being confumed, extrakted, -or'drawn away by fome other means, or the levityot it, unable tofupport the grofier part, lets it defcend, which glidiag through the Air, and enlightned, appears like a falling Star : fome conceives, that thefe afcendinot fo high, being ofa grofle body’ (yet hot) anditriving to afcend is repulfed by the coldnefle ofthe middle Pcs gion, or the moiftneffe of theclouds, and fo by the reafon of its own weighty and oppofition ‘of the Element; it is'throwa down again; the fubs ftance of them is like a gelly, tranf{parent, and ape to’ be illuminated. “ae with the Region they are'in; and from Ev? to Weft, according to the raptile motion of the Spheres : but Seneca affirms, that he did fee one which moved parallel to the Horizon, fromthe North, by the Weft into the South, and fo bythe Eaft into the North again; and the contrary like- wife may be fo; the exhalations moving as the Air and according to the matter:which does nourith it; as you may fee'fire in a ftubble:'and others have been feen to’remove fuddenly from one placeto -another, cafting forth fparkles like fire; thefe ‘by fome are called Goats: and fome have feemied: as fixt, both in refpec& of their Latitudes and Lon- pirudes, - : They ings énst OY Ve taneming sh xnsind ib core i li cealomanae apetegeint SGM GAS Wek alae ala] 2 AW tent SAEs a a