A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing sterres, shooting starres, flames in the ayre &c. tho[n]der, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne dewe, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs.
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- A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing sterres, shooting starres, flames in the ayre &c. tho[n]der, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne dewe, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs.
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- Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
- Publication
- Londini :: [Printed by William Griffith],
- Anno. 1563.
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- Meteorology -- Early works to 1800.
- Meteors -- Early works to 1800.
- Metals -- Early works to 1800.
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"A goodly gallerye with a most pleasaunt prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all kynde of meteors, as wel fyery and ayery, as watry and earthly, of whiche sort be blasing sterres, shooting starres, flames in the ayre &c. tho[n]der, lightning, earthquakes, &c. rayne dewe, snowe, cloudes, springes &c. stones, metalles, earthes &c. to the glory of God, and the profit of his creaturs." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01313.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ❧ TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDE Robert Dudley, Maister of the Quenes ma∣iesties horse, Knight of the most Noble order of the garter, and one of the Quenes maiesties priuie Counsell. William Fulce, wi∣sheth increase of grace and hea∣uenly giftes, in perfect health and true honor, long to conti∣nue.
- A GOODLY GALLERY ¶ The first Booke.
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❧ The seconde Booke of fyery
Meteores. - ¶Of the generation of the impression, called burned stoble or sparcles of fire.
- ¶ Of Torches.
- ¶ Of dansyng or leaping Goates.
- ¶ Of shotyng and falling Starres.
- ¶ Of burnyng Candels.
- ¶ Of burning Beames and round Pillers.
- ¶ Of burning Speares.
- ¶ Of shieldes▪ Globes or Bowles.
- ¶ Of Lampes.
- ¶ Of flying Dragons or fyre Drakes.
- ¶ Of the Pyramidall pyller lyke a spire or broched steeple.
- ¶ Of Fyre scattered in the ayre.
- ¶ Of lights that goeth before men, and follow¦eth thē abrode in the fields by the night season.
- ¶ Of Helena, Castor and Pollux.
- ¶ Of flames that apeare vpon the heares of men or beastes.
- ¶ Of Comets or blasing Starres.
- ¶ Of Aparitions.
- ¶ Of collours.
- ¶ Of wyde gaping.
- ¶ Of round opening Hiatus.
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❧ The thirde Booke of aery impressions.
- ¶ Of Wyndes.
- ¶ Of earthquakes.
- ¶ Of diuerse kindes of earthquakes.
- ¶ How so great wyndes come to be vnder the earth.
- ¶ Of the signes and tokens that goe before an earthquake most commonly.
- ¶ Of thonder.
- ¶ Of Lyghtninge.
- ¶ Of Fulgetrum.
- ¶ Of Coruscation.
- ¶ Of Fulgur.
- ¶ Of the fourth kynde called Fulmen
- ¶ Of the fyrst.
- ¶ Of the seconde kinde.
- ¶ Of the thirde kinde.
- ¶ Of the maruayls of Lightening and their causes.
- ¶ Of storme wyndes.
- ¶ Of whyrle wyndes.
- ¶ Of the fyred whirle wynde.
- ¶ Of Circles.
- ¶ Of the Raynbowe.
- ¶ The mylke waye called of some the waye to saint Iames and Watlyng streate.
- ¶ Of beames or streames of light appea∣ring through a cloude.
- ¶ Of many Sonnes.
- ¶ Of many Moones.
- ¶ Of wonderfull apparitions.
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❧The fourth booke of watry impressions.
- ¶ Of cloudes.
- ¶ Of Mystes.
- Of empty cloudes.
- ¶ Of Rayne.
- ¶ Of the signes of Rayne.
- ¶ Of monstruous or prodigious rayne.
- ¶ Of Dewe.
- ¶ Of hore froste.
- ¶ Of Hayle.
- ¶ Of Snowe.
- ¶ Of Springes and Riuers.
- ¶ Of Fountaines.
- ¶ Of Brookes.
- ¶ Of Ryuers.
- ¶ Of Lakes.
- ¶ Of whote bathes.
- ¶ Of the diuerse tastes that are perceiued in wells.
- ¶ A recitall of such ryuers and springes, as haue maruelous effectes wherof no naturall cause can be assigned by most mē, although some reason in a fewe may be founde.
- ¶ Of the Sea.
- ¶ Of the saltnes.
- ¶ Of the ebbing and flowyng.
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❧ The fift booke of earthly
Meteores or bodies per∣fectly mixed. - colophon