Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	fair_a	night_n	rain_n	5,430	5	10.9395	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05418	Curiosities: or the cabinet of nature Containing phylosophical, naturall, and morall questions fully answered and resolved. Translated out of Latin, French, and Italian authors. By R.B. Gent. Never before published.	Basset, Robert.	1637 (1637)	STC 1557; ESTC S101058	58,950	311

or a Peacocke or in mingled colourd silke for al these things seem of another different colour according to the reflection of the light Q. Wherefore is it that the Heaven sometimes seeme to be all of a flame A. Because of the fiery matter which is above the cloud through which we looke be great in quantity and thinne it seemes to us also that the whole heaven is flaming and if it bee very crasse and thicke it appeares to us to be like blood Q. Wherefore is it that sometimes wee heare divers noyses and sounds above in the Aire A. Without doubt that happeneth in the aire when the exhalation detained enclosed in the cold clouds makes a way out by breaking and tearing the cloud as wee said before of thunder Neverthelesse fearful ignorant and superstitious people beleeve that it is the very sound of a Trumpet or Drumme as the true messengers of great warres presently to ensue and seeme to see certaine troupes of Horsemen ranged in Batallia and many other terrible things according to the feare or apprehension which they conceive Qu. Wherefore is it that circles are often seene about the Moone and other Astres An. The circle that is many times seene about the Sunne and Moone and other Starres proceeds from a cloud which is equally condensed or thickened but somewhat thinne and being justly interposed betweene the Moone and our view the Moone darting her rayes through the cloud causeth an apparition of a round circle in a similitude of her owne rotundity which the Greekes call Halo but if the interposed mist or cloud doe not cover as it were the whole face of the Astre it appeares but as a semicircle Qu. Wherefore is it that sometimes a plurality of Suns and Moones doe appeare An. The reason of this is that when a cloud is obliquely and not directly opposed being humide very watry and disposed to be dissolved into raine and by this meanes being of an equality united and susceptible of the impression of the figures as a Looking-glasse upon which the Sunne or Moone giving a reflection makes a native resemblance and figure of them so that likewise by the reflection against the cloud wee can hardly discerne which is which or the one from the other But this can not be without a great disposition in the cloud for if it be too thicke the rayes of the Astres could not illuminate it and if it be too thinne and rare they would penetrate and dissipate it Pliny writes that sometimes there appeare three Sunnes and Moones without any raine at all in the manner aforesayd Qu. Wherefore is it that these circles are seene oftener about the Moone than the Sunne An. Because the rayes of the Sunne being of a greater vigour and power than those of the Moone doe more easily dissipate and disperse those kind of mists or clouds Of the Raine-bow Qu. VVHence is the Rain-bow so called An. The Greeks tearme it Iris which name the Latins also use and as by isidore it is Etymologised quasiaëris and by us it is by the reason of similitude or likenesse tearmed a Raine-bow quasi Rainy-bow which seemed so admirable that the Ancients called it The daughter of Admiration But never thelesse it will not seeme so strange if wee remember what is said before touching the diversity of colour which oftentimes appeare in the aire for the variety of the colours in the Raine-bow appeare to us as produced from the like causes Q. What is the cause of the Raine bow and diversity of its colours A. The Raine-bow presents it selfe in the aire when we perceive the Sun through a somewhat thicke but a transparant cloud towards us by the reason it is dewy and disposed to bee melted into raine but grosse towards the Sunne so that his raies cannot penetrate it for in this manner wee see three principall colours Orange colour green and purple and by the mixture and confusion of these colors by reason of the reflection of the light of the Sun and our aspect others confusedly likewise are represented even as I said before in the Apparitions in the ayre that upon the neck of a Pigeon or Peacock or of a changeable Taffety according to the postures they are in in the way of reflection of the light Q. Wherefore is it that sometimes two or three Raine-bowes are seene at one time A. Because when the cloud is very cleare and Christalline it accidentally happens that by the reflection of the light two opposite and variegate Raine-bowes also appeare in the Ayre but this happens rather when the Sunne darts his splendour upon two Cloudes and both disposed to receive the same impressions so that sometimes a third Raine-bow is seene meerely by the reflection of the first or second or both But those that take their reflections from the first have their colours far more dimme nothing so quick norlively as that which takes its first reflection from the Sunne Q. Wherefore is it that the Raine-bow appeare but in a semicircle and not wholly round A. Because the Sunne illuminates the cloud circularly and in the way of rotundity but not so that it may perfect a circle by the reason of the connexity of the Heaven so that by how much the Sun is higher upon our Horizon so much the lesse the Raine-bow seemes but morning and evening it appeares greatest And by the same cause wee set our shadowes longer in the morning and evening than at noone-day Q. Whether doth the Raine-bow presage faire or foule weather A. The opinions concerning this point are so divers and different that it is hard to judge Seneca is of opinion that in the morning it portends a faire day at noone raine at night Thunder Pliny who in my conceit was a more curious observer of the incertainty writes that it neither promiseth certainely raine nor certainely faire weather but if it be double or two it will bee attended with raine And the reason hereof I guesse is that the cloud being very humid and moist then when a second Bow appeares by reflexion so that it is ready to melt into raine Qu. Wherefore is it that many mountaines in Sicily as Aetna Naxus Lipara and Brocano are burning and many Fountaines also An. The cause of such fires is that the hot exhalations being enclosed and shut up in the cavernes or dennes of the earth seeking to breake out by force kindle by their allision and attrition of the earth and such hard bodies as they meete with and so breake out in flames through the crannies and chinks of the earth which of it selfe being sulphury slimy and oyly and capable of fire is the cause of the continuance of the fire a long time casting up fire smoake and ashes As for the Fountaines we must presuppose that they dreane through a sulphury earth and matter apt to burne so that the more subtile exhalations issuing through the hollow concaves of the earth kindle as afore-said and heate the