Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity.

William Fulke

Date:: 1670

Credit: Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Of hooting and falling Stars, Shooting Flying fhooting or falling Star. Stars. is when the exhalation being ga-. | | thered as it were on around heap,and! | yetnot throughly compa@ed in the: higheft part of che lowett region of the: ft - air,being kindled by the fudden cold off the middle region, is beaten back, and| . fo appeareth as though. a Star fhould| a fall,or flide from place to place, Some-- tfme itis generated after another fort;; } for there is an exhalation long 8 nar. } row, which being:kindled at one ead! burneth fwiftly, the fire running from a end to end,as when a filk thred is fevon} ‘ fire at the one end, Some fay it is nott }} \ fo much fet on fire; as that ic is dire@t i,’ under fome Star in the firmamentyandi ||’ fo receiving light of chat Star; feemeth to our eyes to be a Star.Indeed fome- } times it may be fo, but chat itis not fo: J TheEpi- alwayes, noryet moft commonly, it i* cureans maybe eafily demonftrated, TheEpicu— |} '! Opinion. reans, as they are very grofs in deters |) mining the chief goodnefs, fo they are:|f very fondin affigning the caufe of thiss| i Meteor. For they fay,that the Stars fall! our}$

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