Vapours in them they are fair But notwithstanding sometimes they are pure and sometimes turbulent 10. The south and west wind here with us seem to be confederate and are warm and moist and on the other side the North and East winds have some affinity between them being cold and dry 11. The North and South winds whereof we have also spoken before do blow oftner than the East and West winds because there is a great inequality of vapours in those parts by reason of the absence and presence of the Sun but to the East and to the West the Sun is as it were indifferent 12. The south wind is very healthful when it comes from the Sea but when it blows from the Continent it is more unhealthful and so contrariwise the North wind is suspicious blowing from the Sea from the Continent it is healthful Likewise the south sea wind is very agreeable with Plants and Fruits killing their Cankers or rusts and other hurtful annoiances 13. A gentle south wind doth assemble and gather together Clouds much especially if it continue but a short while but if it blow too boisterously or long it clouds the skie and brings in rain But especially when it ceases or grows remiss more than in its beginning and when it is in its chiefest vigor 14. When the south wind either begins to blow or ceases for the most there are changes of weather from fair to cloudy and from hot to cold and contrariwise The North wind many times rises and ceases the former weather remaining and continuing 15. After hoary frosts and long continued snow there scarcely blows any other wind than a south wind there being as it were a concoction or digestion made of cold which then at last dissolves neither doth rain also follow but this likewise happens in changes or intervals of fair weather 16. The south wind rises oftner and blows stronger in the night than in the day especially in winter nights But the North wind if it rise in the night which is contrary to its custom it doth usually last above three days 17. When the south wind blows the waves swell higher than when the north wind blows though it blow with an equal or lesser force 18. The south wind blowing the sea becomes blew and more bright than when the North wind blows which causes it to look darker and blacker 19. When the air becomes warmer on a sudden it sometimes betokens rain and again at other times when on a sudden it grows colder it likewise betokens rain But this happens according to the Nature of the winds for if the air grow warm whilst the south or east wind blows there is rain at hand and likewise when it grows cold during the Northern or Western blasts 20. The south wind blows for the most part entire and alone But the north wind blowing especially the East North-East or the North-West often times contrary and various or divers winds blow together whereby they are broken and disturbed 21. Beware a Northern wind when you sow seed neither would I wish any one to inoculate or graft in a southern wind 22. Leaves fall from trees soonest on the south side but Vine sprouts or stalks bud forth and grow most that way 23. In large Pasture shepherds must take care as Pliny saith to bring their Flocks to the North side that they may feed against the South For if they feed towards the North they grow lame and bleereyed and distempered in their bellies The Northern wind also doth so weaken their coupling that if they couple looking that way they will for the most part bring forth Ewe-Lambs But Pliny doth not stand very stifly to this Opinion having as it were but taken it up upon trust and borrowed it 24. Winds are hurtful to Wheat and all manner of grain at three times namely at the opening and at the falling of the flower and when the grain it self is ripe for then they blow the Corn out of the Ear and at the other two times either they blast the flower or blow it off 25. While the south wind blows mens breath grow ranker all creatures appetites decay pestilent diseases reign men wax more slow and dull But when the wind is Northwardly men are more lively healthful and greedy after food Yet the Northern wind is hurtful for them that are troubled with the Phthisick Cough Gout or any other sharp defluxions 26. An East wind is dry piercing and mortifying The West wind moist meek and nourishing 27. If the East wind blow when the Spring is any thing forward it is hurtful to fruits bringing in of Worms and Caterpillars so that the leaves are hardly spared neither is it very good to grain Contrariwise the West wind is very propitious and friendly to Herbs Flowers and all manner of vegitables And so is the East wind too about the Autumnal Equinoctial 28. Western winds are more vehement than Eastern winds and bow and bend Trees more 29. Rainy weather which begins when the East wind blows doth last longer than that which begins when a West wind blows and may peradventure hold out for a whole day 30. The East and North wind when they once begin to blow blow more constantly the South and West wind are more mutable 31. In an Eastern wind all visible things do appear bigger But in a Western wind all audible things are heard further as sounds of Bells and the like 32. The East North-East wind draws Clouds to it It is a Proverb amongst the Greeks to compare it to Usurers who by laying out mony do swallow it up It is a vehement and large wind which cannot remove Clouds so fast as they will turn back and press upon it Which is likewise seen in great fires which grow stronger against the wind 33. Cardinal or Semi-Cardinal winds are not so stormy as the Median 34. Median winds from North to North-East are more fair from North-East to East more stormy Likewise from East to South-East more fair from South-East to South more stormy Likewise from South to South-West more fair from South-West to West more stormy Likewise from West to North-west more fair from North-west to North more stormy So that proceeding according to the order of the heavens the Median winds of the first half-ward are always disposed to fair weather those of the latter half-ward to storms and tempests 35. Thunders and Lightnings and storms with falling of broken Clouds are when cold winds as participate of the North do blow as the North-west North North-west North North-east North-east and East North-east Wherefore those thunders likely are accompanied with Hail 36. Likewise snowy winds come from the North but it is from those Median winds which are not stormy as the North-west and North-east and by North. 37. Winds gain their Natures and Properties five wayes onely Either by the absence or presence of the Sun or by agreeing or disagreeing with the natural Motion of the Air or by the
If the body of the Sun it self appears at its setting of the colour of bloud it foretokens great winds for many days 4. If at Sun rising its beams appear rather red than yellow it sign fies wind rather than rain and the like if they appear so at its setting 5. If at Sun rising or setting its rays appear contracted or shortned and do not shine out bright though the weather be not cloudy it signifies rain rather than wind 6. If before Sun rising there appear some rays as fore-runners it signifies both wind and rain 7. If the Sun at its rising diffuses its rays through the Clouds the middle of the Sun remaining still under Clouds it shall signifie rain especially if those beams break out downwards that the Sun appears as it were with a Beard But if the raies break forth out of the middle or dispersed and its exterior body or the out-parts of it be covered with clouds it fore-shewes great tempests both of wind and rain 8. If the Sun when it rises be encompassed with a Circle let wind be expected from that side on which the Circle opens But if the Circle fall off all at one time it will be fair weather 9. If at the setting of the Sun there appears a white Circle about it it signifies some small storm the same night if black or darkness much wind the day following 10. If the Clouds look red at Sun-rising they are Prognosticks of wind if at Sun-setting of a fair ensuing day 11. If about the rising of the Sun Clouds do gather themselves about it they foreshew rough storms that day but if they be driven back from the rising towards the setting of the Sun they signifie fair weather 12. If at Sun-rising the Clouds be dispersed from the sides of the Sun some South-ward and some North-ward though the sky be clear about the Sun it fore-shews wind 13. If the Sun goes down in a Cloud it fore-shewes rain the next day but if it rains at Sun-setting it is a token of wind rather But if the Clouds seem to be as it were drawn towards the Sun it signifies both wind and storms 14. If Clouds at the rising of the Sun seem not to encompass it but to lie over it as if they were about to Eclipse it they fore-shew the rising of winds on that side as the Clouds incline And if they do this about noon they signifie both wind and rain 15. If the Clouds have encompassed the Sun the less light they leave it and the lesser the Orb of the Sun appears so much the more raging shall the tempest be but if there appear a double or treble Orb as though there were two or three Suns the Tempest will be so much the more violent for many days 16. New Moons presage the dispositions of the Air but especially the fourth rising of it as if it were a confirmed New Moon The full Moons likewise do presage more than the days which come after 17. By long observation the fifth day of the Moon is feared by Mariners for stormy 18. If the New Moon do not appear before the fourth day it fore-shews a troubled air for the whole Month. 19. If the New Moon at her first appearance or within a few days after have its lower horn obscure or dusky or any way blemished it signifies stormy and tempestuous days before the Full Moon if it be ill coloured in the middle Tempests will come about the Full of the Moon if it be so about the upper part of the horn they will be about the decreasing of the Moon 20. If at the fourth rising the Moon appear bright with sharp horns not lying flat nor standing upright but in a middle kind of posture between both it promises fair weather for the most part until the next New Moon 21. If at the same rising it be red it portends winds if dusky or black rain but howsoever it signifies nothing beyond the Full Moon 22. An upright Moon is almost always threatning and hurtful but it chiefly portends winds But if it have blunt horns and as it were cut off short it rather signifies rain 23. If one horn of the Moon be sharp and the other blunt it signifies wind if both be blunt rain 24. If a Circle or Halo appear about the Moon it signifies rain rather than wind unless the Moon stands directly within that Circle for then it signifies both 25. Circles about the Moon always foreshew winds on that side where they break also a notable shining in some part of the Circle signifies winds from that part where the shining is 26. If the Circles about the Moon be double or treble they fore-shew horrible and rough Tempests and especially if those Circles be not whole but spotted and divided 27. Full Moons as concerning the Colours and Circles do in a manner foreshew the same things as the fourth rising but more present and not so long delayed 28. Full Moons use to be more clear than the other ages of the Moon and in winter use to be far colder 29. The Moon appearing larger at the going down of the Sun if it be splendent and not dusky betokens fair weather for many days 30. Winds almost continually follow the Eclipses of the Moon and fair weather the Eclipses of the Sun rain comes after neither 31. From the Conjunctions of any of the Planets but only the Sun you may expect winds both before and after from their conjunctions with the Sun fair weather 32. At the rising of the Pleiades and Hyades come showres of rain but calm ones after the rising of Arcturus and Orion tempests 33. Returning and shooting stars as we call them signifie winds to come from that place whence they run or are shot but if they flye from several or contrary parts it is a sign of great approaching storms of wind and rain 34. When such little stars as those which are called Aselli are not seen generally all over the sky it foreshews great tempests and rain within some few days But if they be seen in some places and not in other some it foreshews winds only and that suddenly 35. The sky when it is all over bright in a New-Moon or at the fourth rising of it portends fair weather for many days if it be all over dark it foreshews rain if partly dark and partly fair it portends wind of that side where the darkness is seen But if it grow dark on a sudden without either Cloud or Mist to dimn the brightness of the Stars there are great and rough tempests a breeding 36. If an entire Circle incloseth a Planet or any of the greater stars it foreshews wind if it be a broken Circle wind from those parts where the Circle is deficient 37. When the Thunder is more than the Lightnings there will be great winds but if the Lightnings be thick amidst the thundering it fore-shews thick showres with great drops 38. Morning Thunders signifie wind mid-day Thunders rain
Northern winds sharp penetrating cold burneth c. 28. Other things also which I omit for brevity This we use to call the Table of Essence and presence The second Aphorism SEcondly there is manifestation to be made to the understanding of instances which are deprived of their nature which was first given them For the Forme as we said before ought as well to be absent where the primary Nature is absent as be present where it is present But this would be infinite in all things Wherefore Negatives are to be added to the Affirmatives and Privations are onely to be looked upon in those subjects which are nearly allyed to those others in which the Primary Nature is and appears And this we use to call the Table of Declination or Absence in proximo or the next degree The nearest Instances which are deprived of the Nature of Heat A Negative or Subjunctive Instance to the first Affirmative Instance The Moon and the stars and the Comets Beams are not found hot by the sence of feeling yea one may observe extreame cold seasons at full Moons But the greater fixed Stars when the Sun comes under them or nigh unto them are thought to increase and exasperate the heat of the Sun as it is when the Sun is in Leo and in the dog-Dog-days Six Negatives to the second Instance 1. The Sun-beams give not any heat in that which they call the middle Region of the air for which is commonly given a tolerable reason For that Region or part of the air is neither near unto the body of the Sun from which issue the beams nor yet unto the earth by which the said beams are reflected And this appears by the tops of those Hills which are of a great height where the Snow lyeth continually But on the contrary it hath been noted by some that on the top of the Peak of Tenariff and also of some Hills of Peru the tops of the hils have no snow upon them the snow lying lower upon the ascent of the Hill and besides the air is not cold upon the tops of those Hils but very piercing and sharp so that upon those hils of Peru it pricks and hurts the eyes with its too much acrimony and pricks the Orifice of the Ventricle and causeth vomiting And it was noted by the Ancients that on the top of Olympus there was such a tenuity of air that they who ascended thither were fain to carry with them spunges steeped in Water and Vinegar and hold them to their mouths and nostrils lest the tenuity or subtilness of the Air should hinder their breathing Upon the top of which montain it was also said the air was so clear and free from Winds and Rain that if the Priests had written upon the Ashes which remained upon Jupiters Altar after the Sacrifices had been there offered unto him the Letters would remain there and not be blown away or blotted out until the next year And to this hour those which ascend to the top of Tenariff which they do by night and not by day are called upon and hastned to descend presently after Sun-rising For fear as it should seem lest the tenuity of the air should dissolve their spirits and suffocate them 2. The reflexion of the Sun-beams in those Countries which are nigh unto the Polar Circles is very weak and ineffectual in its heat so that the Dutch who wintred in Nova Zembla when they expected their ship should be freed from the great heaps and mountains of Ice which were grown about it in the beginning of the Month of July were frustrated of their hopes and forced to come away in their ship boat So that the Beams of the Sun seem to be of small strength when they are direct even upon plain ground nor yet when they are reflected unless they be multiplyed and united which happeneth when the Sun grows to be more perpendicular for the incidence of the beams makes more acute Angles so that the lines of the beams are more near whereas contrariwise in great obliquities of the Sun the Angles are very obtuse and consequently the lines of the beams more distant But in the mean time we must note that there may be many operations of the Sun-beams and in the nature of heat which are not proportioned to our touch or feeling so that in respect of us they do not operate so far as calefaction or heating but in respect of some other bodies they may execute the Operations and Functions of heat 3. Let us try such an experiment as this Let there be a Glass made and framed of a contrary quality to a burning-Glass and let this glass be held between the Sun and our hand and let us observe whether that will diminish the heat of the Sun as a burning-Glass doth increase it For it is manifest in the Optick beams that as the Glass is of an unequal thickness in the middle and on the sides so the things which are seen thorow them are either more diffused or more contracted So the same should be in the matter of heat 4. Let it be carefully tryed whether the strongest and best made Burning-Glasses can gather up the beams of the Moon in such sort as the least degree of warmness or tepidity may proceed from them And if that degree of tepidity should be too weak and subtile to be perceived by the sense of feeling let recourse be had to those kinds of Weather-Glasses that shew the Constitution of the air whether it be hot or cold and let the Moon-beams fall thorow a burning-Glass into the Orifice of this Weather-Glass and observe whether the tepidity do cause any fall or abatement of the water that is in the said Weather-Glass 5. Let the Burning-Glass be used over some hot thing that is not radious or luminous as a hot Iron or stone which is not red or fire hot or boyling water or the like and let it be observed whether there be any increase or augmentation of heat as there is in the Sun-beams 6. Let a Burning-Glass also be tried with a common flame One Negative to the third Affirmative Instance There is no manifest or constant effect found in Comets if so be they also may be reckoned amongst Meteors for the increasing the heat of the Weather according to the season of the year though drought have commonly been observed to follow Also bright beams and columns openings of the Element and the like are more commonly seen in Winter than in Summer especially in extream cold weather so it be joyned with Drought But Thunders and flashes of Lightning do seldome happen in Winter but onely in time of great heat But those which we call falling or shooting stars are commonly thought to consist rather of some bright visions or slimie matter set on fire than of any stronger fiery Nature But of this we will enquire further To the fourth one There are some Coruscations which yield light but do not burn And those are always
without Thunder To the fifth one Eructations and breakings out of flames happen in cold Countries as well as in hot in Island and Greenland as also trees growing in cold Countries are sometimes more apt to take fire and have more Pitch and Rozen in them than those which grow in hot Countries as Fir and Pinetrees and the like But in what situation and nature of soil such breakings out use to be that we might adde a Negative to the Affirmative is not yet sufficiently enquired To the sixth one All manner of flame is perpetually hot either more or less neither can there any Negative be added And yet it is reported that which they call Ignis Fatuus which also sometimes hits against a wall hath not much heat in it peradventure like the flame of spirit of Wine or Aqua-vitae which is not fierce or scorching Yet that seems to be yet a milder flame which we read of in some grave and credible Histories that hath been seen to appear about the heads and hair of young boys and maidens which fire no way burned their hair but softly seemed to flame and play about it And it is certain that in a night horses have been seen when they swet with travail to have a certain kind of lightning flashes upon them without any manifest scorching heat And not many years since was seen and held for a kind of Miracle a childs Apron which being a little stirred and rubbed flashed out with fire and sparkles flew out of it which might happen peradventure by reason of the Salt or Allom wherewith the Apron was Dyed which might stick upon the Apron in Scales which with violent rubbing might be broken And it is most certain that all manner of Sugar either Candid or otherwise so it be hard broken or scraped in the dark will shine and sparkle Likewise sea-water violently stirred up with Oars will give a light and seem to burn which kind of burning or light the Spaniards call the Sea-lungs But what kind of heat that fire or flame yields which sea-men in ancient times were wont to call Castor and Pollux and now in our days is called St. Anthonies fire is not yet certainly found out To the seventh one Whatsoever is fiery and turned into red heat though it be without flame yet it is perpetually hot neither can there be any negative added to this affirmative Yet there are some things which seem to be somewhat near thereunto as rotten wood which shines in the night and yet doth not feel hot and the scales of rotten fish which also glister in the dark yet seem not hot if you feel them neither can there be any heat perceived in handling a Glow-worm which shineth so bright in the dark To the eighth one It is not yet throughly enquired concerning hot Baths in what situation and kind of Soil they spring out therefore there is no Negative added To the ninth one To liquid boiling or hot things is added a Negative of the liquid thing it self in its own Nature For there is not any tangible liquid thing which in its own nature is and constantly endures and remains hot but heat is only caused in it as an additional and acquired nature and those things which in power and operation are very hot as the spirits of Wine Chymical Aromatick Oils Oils of Vitriol and Sulphur and the like which after a little continuance will burn yet at the first touching they are cold The Water of hot Natural Baths taken up in Vessels and severed from its springs will grow cold as well as water heated at the fire Oily bodies indeed are not altogether so cold to be touched as watry bodies are and silk is not so cold as linnen But these things belong to the Table of Degrees of cold To the Tenth one 1. To a hot or fervent vapour is added the Negative of the Nature of the Vapour it self such as we find it For Exnalations out of Oily things though they be easily inflamed yet they are not found to be hot unless they be newly exhaled from a hot body 2. Likewise to a hot fervent Air is added a Negative of the Nature of the Air it self For we do not find any air to be hot unless it be shut up or chafed or palpably heated by the Sun or by fire or some other hot body To the eleventh one There is a Negative added of weather which is colder than it should be at that season of the year which happeneth upon a South-East or North-East winds blowing as also contrary weathers happen when a South or West South-West wind bloweth There is likewise an inclination to rain especially in Winter when it is mild weather and to frost in sharp cold weather To the Twelfth one There is a Negative added concerning Air inclosed in Caves in the summer time But there must be a more diligent Inquisition made of inclosed Air. For first it is a Question and that not without cause what the Nature of the Air is of it self concerng in heat and cold For the Air doth manifestly receive heat from Celestial Impressions and cold peradventure by the expiration of the earth and again in that which is called the middle Region of the Air from cold vapours and snow so that no judgement can be given of the Nature of the Air by that air which lies open and abroad but a truer judgment may be given by that which is inclosed and shut up And again that air should be inclosed and shut up in such a vessel or substance which may not of it self qualifie the air either with heat or cold nor easily admit the force of the air which is without it Let trial therefore be made with an earthen Pitcher covered all over with double Leather to safegard it from the outward air keeping in the included air in such a vessel well closed for the space of three or four dayes and the trial thereof after the opening of the vessel may be made either by the feeling it with the hand or by a Glass of Degrees called a Weather glass well and orderly applyed To the thirteenth one It is likewise a Question whether tepidity or lukewarmness in wool skins feathers and the like be by reason of some small inherent heat because they are taken off from living creatures or by reason of a certain fitness and oiliness which is of a Nature agreeing with tepidity or meerly by reason of the conclusion and fraction of the Air as was spoken in the precedent Article for all Air which is cut off from the continuation of the outward air seems to have some tepidity or luke-warm ness in it Let therefore trial of this be made in thready Stuffs which are made of Linnen and not of Feathers Wool or Silk which are taken from living Creatures It is also to be noted that all manner of Dusts or Pulverized things in which Air is manifestly included are less cold than the bodies of them as
they have 57 Cardinal Winds 6 Caravels what manner of ships they are 34 Chymists principles 49 Circles about the Planets or Stars presage winds 39. about the Moon likewise on that side where they break 19. 38 Clear weather in Summer presages a windy Autumn 41. and a clear Autumn a windy winter 41 Clouds presages concerning winds 40. the higher ones sometimes outfly the lower 30. and are for the most part carried from East to West 7 Coals shining bright and sparkling presage wind 41 Coaches moving with the wind 61 Colder weather then the season requireth 58 Columbus judged there was a continent towards America by the certain and stayed winds which blew from thence towards the shores of Portugal 9. 29 Cold causeth a kind of burning 54. 62 Comets effects for increasing heat are not perceivable 56 Convenient instances in the nature of hot things 53 Conjunctions of Planets are followed by winds 39. and great ones 23 Conflicts of winds 4. 30. 33. being strong do produce vehement whirling winds 25 Constantius his excessive heat 63 Contributing towards winds and raising and appearing of them 3 Cooling of summer rooms 42. artificially done by induction of Winds 21 Coruscations give light but do not burn 56 Coruscations about a sweating horse 57 Crows presage Winds 41 Currents in the sea 9 D. DIssolution of snow about the frozen sea raiseth Northern Winds in Italy and Greece 29 Divers Motions of Winds 4 Divers qualities of Winds 2 Duckers and Ducks against Wind cleanse their feathers with their bills 41 Dung or whatever else fattens soil is of a hot nature 63 E. EArth the first cold thing 18 Earth-quakes bring in noxious and forreign Winds 18. they happen but seldom 17 East Wind drie and piercing 14. in England surmised to be mischievous 12. in Europe generally drying 8 East North-East Wind draws the clouds to it 15. and is compared to Usurers 15 Ebbings and flowings of the sea 90. Acosta's observation concerning them 90 Eclipses of the Moon preceded and followed by Winds and the Suns with fair weather 22 39 Eggs sometimes hatched with the heat of fire 75 Enlightnings or ostensive instances what they are 71 Exciting of Motions in winds 28 Excrements of Beasts newly made are hot 54 Experiment of Wind in a close Tower 23 27 Experiment of the Suns heat on a glass 56 Extraordinary Winds 2 F. FEathers swimming upon the water presage Wind. 41 Feathers what kind of heat they cause 63 Fervent vapour 34 Fervent heats in the Solstice end with Thunder 39 Fire how kindled amongst the Indians 54. upon a hearth how it presageth winds 40 Fired things that look red are perpetually hot 57. and have divers degrees of heat 65 Fiery Meteors appear more in winter then in summer 57 Fishes entrails not very hot 63. when they stink their scales shine 58. there is in them a degree rather then a privation of heat 60 Firmament opening betokens Winds 19 Flames have many degrees of violence 64. sometimes seen blazing about childrens heads yet not burn the hair 57 Flints by percussion yield sparkles 59 Form of a thing is the thing it self 62. it ought to be absent where the primary nature is absent and present where it is present 54. what our Author means by form 68 Fracastorius his invention with a frying-pan 75 Free winds 1. are least attendant in summer 10 Froth upon a calm sea presages wind 41 Full Moon touching circles and colours gives the same presages as it doth at four days old 39 Furrowing winds 4 G. GAles blow continually about the sea 20 Generation simple what it is 83 Generations accidental of Winds 2 Generations and corruptions principal causes 75 General Winds 1 7 Gilbertus his electrick operation 80. he is reprehended 49 Glow-worms 58 Great English ship have some four some five masts 31 Green herbs laid up together will fire 54 Great Winds are inundations of the air 43 In great storms what is to be done 33 34 Groenland 10. 56 Gun-powder 43 H. HAy cocks blown up in the Air. 22 Hand fans 42 Heat is an expansive motion by which the body strives to dilatate it self 71. ascending upward 71. by the lesser parts of the body 73. somewhat swift 73 74. that of celestial things is increased there ways 64. it will not burn any dry thing 64. how it is in the brain 63. in what things it is strongest 64 Heats definition 74. is a Peripatetical one 57. its division 75. its first tactible degree seems to be in animate things 63. in vegetables it is not tangible 63. what bodies are most subject to it next to Air. 67 Helps to winds 22 Hernes flying high presage Winds 41. Kites fair weather 41 Hils capped with clouds presage tempests 24 History of heavy and light 48 History concerning a childs apron 57 History of Density and Rarity 47 History of Sulphur Mercury and Salt 49 History of the Simpathy and Antipathy of things 49 History of life and death 50 Hoary frosts and Snow cause South Winds 14 Hot and heating two different things 71 Hot Baths 57 58 Horse dung 62 Hyades and Pleiades their power concerning Winds 23. at their rising they cause rain 39 I. IGnis Fatuus hath not much heat in it 75 Ignis grecus 65 Indians have a web made of feathers which will melt butter 63 Imitations of Winds 5. 42 Indirect experiments what they are 8 Inductious first work 68 Inquisition of Forms how it proceeds 53 Instance of the cross what it is 90 Instances convenient in the nature of hot things 53 Iron dissolved with strong waters is hot 54 Irritation by cold encreaseth heat 66 Island 57 L. LEaves fall off the trees soonest on the South side 14. they and straws playing in a calm presage Winds 41 Lesser ships farr swifter then great ones 30. how far one of them may sail in a day 34 Lightnings what they presage concerning Winds 39. they seldome happen in Winter 56 57 Lime 62. being unslackt water being cast upon it gathers heat 57 Liquid hot things 56 Local beginning of Winds 2 64. hard to be known ib. they are three 17 Longitude of Winds 29 M. MArch Winds drie more then any summer winds 16 Masts how many in a ship 31 Median Winds 6. major and lesser ibid. which of them fairest and which fowlest 15 Mezentius his torment 51 Moons presages touching winds 38. its and the Comets and stars beams cast no sensible heat 55. next to the Sun it is most operative 22 its fifth day terrible to mariners 38. an upright one is always threatning and hurtful 38. being red the fourth day it presages winds 16 Motion of Liberty according to Democritus is called Motion of the coast 78 Motion of the wind in sails 31. hath three chief heads of impulsion 34. the first ibid. the second 34. the third 35. in which motion is considerable both impulsion and direction 33. the nearer it comes to the beak the stronger it is 32 Motion of Windmils 35.
their sails 32 Motions of the Winds diverse 4. 28. in engines of mans invention 35 Motion of winds and direction to be enquired of 28. the first is motion of the antitypie of the matter 77. the second of Connexion 77. the third of liberty 77. the fourth of Hyles 78. the fifth of continuation 79. the sixth is the motion to gain or of indigency 79. the seventh of the greater congregation 80. the eight of the lesser 80. the ninth the Magnetick 82. the tenth of flight 83. the eleventh of assembling 83. the twelfth of excitation 84. the thirteenth of impression 84. the fourteenth of configuration or scituation 85. the fifteenth of pertransition 86. the sixteenth the regal motion 86. the seventeenth the spontaneal motion of rotation 87. the eighteenth of trepidation 87. the nineteenth of Exhorrency on abhorring 88 Murmure in the hils and Element belongs to winds and is prodigious 41. murmure in wood before winds 19 N. NAmes of winds 1 6 Natural Magick 49 Natural motion according to the ancients 41 New Moons foreshew the disposition of the air 5 Nights hotter in Europe 23 North Wind high and blows from above 13. is the days attendant 11. suspicious blowing from the Sea but from the Land healthfull 13. noxious to Physical people 14. it rises oftentimes while a North-East or North-West Winds are blowing 14. it alters not the Weather 13. if it rise in the night it lasts not above three days 14 Nova Zembla 55 Nurseries of Winds are where vapours abound 28 O. OYl of Origanum Sulphur and Vitriol execute the operations of heat 54 61 Olimpus the Mountain 26 55. what strang things hap on the top of it ib. Orions rising is accompanied with Winds 23 39 Overburthening of the Air. 19 Owls presage change of weather 41. with us when they chatter in Winter it is a sign of fair Weather 41 42 P. PAracelsus confuted 83. his school found no place for the East wind 16 Particular Winds matrixes 16 Peake of Penariffe 26. 55 Permission of the understanding what it is 71 In Peru Winds blow most at a full Moon 22 Physitians dreams touching radical humours 21 Pliny reprehended 57 Poets feign that in the deluge Boreas was kept in prison and the South Wind let out 12 13 Power of Winds 5 Praestar a dark lightning 22 Prognosticks of Winds 16. 36. 39 Promontories turnings an windings cause alterations of Winds 21 Proportions of masts and sails vary 63 Putrefaction hath heat in it 28 Q. QUicksilver killed 83 84. hath a flatuous and expansive spirit 12 Qualities and powers of winds 43 R. RAdical differences of Winds 13. their accidental generations 2. and imitations 5 Rainy springs presage clear summers 40 Rains engendring 14 Rainbows when they are not entire do commonly dissolve into Wind. 20 Repercussions of Winds in Gardens 21 Returns of Winds 10 Rocky hils are full of Wind 17. Icy hills engender cold gales rather then Winds 24 Rotten wood gives a lustre in the night 57 S. SAils how to be spread 34. with a side wind they must be stretched out stiff 33. ten belong to a ship 31. in a forewind how they must be trimmed 33. length of sails in Wind-mills conduces much to motion 34. the lower Sails swell more then the rest 32 A Scripture place expounded 17 Seawater violently stirred gives alight 57 Sea looks blewish in a South wind 14. in a Northern Wind it looks darker 14. when it presages Winds 41. some places of it swell without Winds 17. European Seas have sometime soft gales and no Wind. 7 Sea Winds moister then Land Winds 11. and more vehement 12. and either lukewarm or cold 11 Sea lungs 57 Sea compass divided into two and thirty points 33 Semicardinal Winds 6. are not so stormie as the median 15 Silver dissolved excites a little heat 60 Shepherds should feed their flocks against the South 14 Shores how they presage Winds 40 Small whirlewinds happen oft 21. and sometimes in clear weather 22. great ones come but seldom ib. Snowy Winds come from the North. 15 Snow blown down whole from tops of hills hath choaked up the valleys 16 Sounds do last longer then resoundings 85 Suddain blasts are always in cloudy weather 21 South nor West Winds engender no vapours 13. South Wind for the most part blows alone 14. rises oftner and blows stronger in the night 14. when it begins or ceases there is change of weather 13. when it blows softly it is clear weather ib. from the sea it is most healthful 13. from the continent not so ib. in England it is unhealthful 13. in Africk clear and healthful ib. wandring and free low and lateral ib. Sowre things laid on a place where there is no upper skin cause smarting 54 Spices and hot herbs chewed burn and bite the tongue 54. 61 Spiders work hard before winds 42 Spirit of wine hot in operation 54. 61. what kind of flame it makes 64 Stars some hotter then other 64. shooting stars of a slimy substance 56. they presage Winds 19. small Stars are not perceiveable before rising of Winds 19 Stayed Winds what 1. 8. in Europe 10. they do not blow in the night 9. they blow where high and snowie Mountains are 9. they are itinerary 26. and weak in winter they are scarce noted 10 Stormy Winds go not far 26 Storms with what winds they come 15 Storms with fogs ominous to sea-men 21 Subterraneal places full of air 17 Successions of Winds 4. 26 Sugar broken or scraped in the dark shineth 57 Sun begetter of Winds 22. setting red presages Winds 19. is like a prince 16. its heat varies 64. in the generation of Winds its heat must be proportionable 45. its small heat doth not excite vapors 24. prognosticates winds 37 seq Suns beams of small force in the middle region of the air 55. and their reflection weak about the Polar circles 55 Swellings of water frequent 17 Swine terrified at the approach of winds 41 T. TEpidity in wool skins and feathers whence it comes 59. and in all woolly things 54 Thales his monopoly of Olives 45 Three leaved grasses prognostick of Winds 42 Thunders and lightnings in what winds most frequent 15. what they presage touching Winds 39 Trees growing in cold countries are most apt to fire 57 Tropaei Winds 12 True wayes of a natural death 51 U. VAcuity why introduced by Leucippus and Democritus 89 Vanes of Steeples and Weather-Cocks in calm weather likely stand continually West 7 Vaporary winds 24. their efficient cause ibid. their height 26 Vapours quantity and quality to be considered 24 Vaulting of rooms adds much coolness to them 21 Ubiquitary winds 30 Vegetables feel not hot 61 62 63 Vehement winds are inundations of the air 16 Vessels we eat in may presage wind 42 Vinegar thrown against a whirlwind by Pliny 46 Vine stalks sprout most towards the South 14. they will ripen sooner within doors then without 75 Virgil skilful in Philosophy 30 31 Undulation and furrowing of winds