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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96648	Natures secrets. Or, The admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors. Particularly describing, the temperatures and qualities of the four elements, the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars: the efficient and finall causes of comets, earthquakes, deluges, epidemicall diseases, and prodigies of precedent times; registred by the students of nature. Their conjecturall presages of the weather, from the planets mutuall aspects, and sublunary bodies: with the proportions and observations on the weather-glass, with philosophicall paraphrases rendred explicitely, usefull at sea and land. / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford, Gent.	Willsford, Thomas.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1658 (1658)	Wing W2875; Thomason E1775_2; ESTC R204119	105,190	225

is that the Air in Water-cranes and pumps being sucked out the waters from profound springs are forced to rise contrary to their course and gravity and as the Air is sucked up the Water ascends whereby to avoid a Vacuum so repugnant to Nature the reason is the same in this for the outward Air being condensed with cold that contained in the globe of the glasse must also contract it self being a member or part of the whole Element and so consequently the water in the glasse must ascend to avoid a vacuum which it readily will doe having a vent below to supply the defect of water in the lower vessel This is the sole cause that glasses break in frosty weather being close stopp'd and not full of liquor for the Air contracting and having no pores or passage for a supply of more the vessel of necessity must crack and by rarifaction the same may be effected as common experience proves in glasse Alembicks or other close and concave vessels which are burst by restraint of the rarified inclosed Air and if these bodies could extend themselves like bladders the included air might be dilated unto an irruption at last with a noyse like Meteors swell'd to Tympanies in the wombs of pregnant clouds from rarifaction of Air proceeds this experiment Take a globe or round glasse luted up close and having rarified the confined air by natural or artificial heat you may throw the glasse against a stone 't will bound and not break by any violence that exceeds not the extension of the dilated imprison'd air And here in these small things I have briefly prov'd how active this Element is in avoiding either excess or defect superfluity or a vacuum and in an instant contracts or rarifies as Nature sees aptest or most facile to be effected and thus avoids vacuity in all bodies for if any place be empty 't will be found in some extravagant defendants or in orbicular heads enemies to order emblemes of a Chaos Natures abortives or false conceptions but lest this discourse should be so much dilated for to make some break into choller I will return to the Weather glass my former subject not so fragile as they The falling of this inclosed Water is according to the natural property and course of all ponderous bodies inclining towards the center and seat of gravity if not hindred by some greater force or natural affection to attract them so this tends downwards accordingly as the inclosed Air can dilate it self for the Element rarifying as against rain or hot weather that contained above the water in the glass must imitate it in the same proportion which appears by this for to be â…• or â…™ part more in the extreme heat of Sommer then in the greatest cold of Winter but not to be understood as general for the extreams of heat and cold in the Winter and Sommer-Season in every year nor Country is alike as regions under the Torrid Zone admits of no frost and parts neer either Pole receives but little heat some places enjoy a mean and divers in excess of both extreams The divisions of this glass are intended chiefly for England or such Countries as are neer this temperature of Air yet they may be made for any other Climate but the observations must not be in all points the same for the former reason delivered The temper of your body you may try by laying your hand upon the head of the glass for the hotter you are the more the water will fall and take your hand off the water will presently rise recovering its former place or temper and for a demonstration let this suffice I have presented to your view as in a glass both natural and artificial presages of the weather for all knowledge meerly humane is but as a shadow of Science or a superficial learning reflecting upon mans imagination as objects represented on a mirrour and not substantially comprehending the least thing created so expect not from me the meanest of men infallible predictions but conjectures and most of those collected from the observations of others bound up in this little Volume and order'd in the best form I could devise as for better reasons in these natural causes and effects of Metcors I will refer them unto your calm and serene censure for to paraphrase upon and explain the obscure and hidden mysteries of Natures secrets and yet She not absolute of her self but strictly tyed to the precepts of the Immense Creator to whose Sacred name be all Honour Praise and Glory These and all other being under the command of His Omnipotent word And thus it is recorded in the Regal Psalmist cap. 148.8 Ignis grando nix glacies spiritus procellarum quae faciunt verbum ejus AN INTRODUCTION TO The Fourth PART Shewing The direful effects of some prodigious Meteors Epidemical diseases and Memorable accidents with brief Historical observations of their events and final causes as just motives to the love and fear of God Benevolent Reader THe formal and material cause of Meteors I have compendiously delivered you already according to my ability selected from the ablest Astronomers and Philosophers amongst whom I will not rashly presume to give a verdict in such stupendious conceptions but willingly do attend their Dictates and Hypotheses which in many things do not concur a common vice in humane learning to vary many men having many minds with opinions so oppugnant as not to be reconcil'd Some affirming Comets to be of a Celestial nature other sublunary and extracted from the Elements Some denie their motions to be equal about their center but sometimes high and at other times low according to the matter that feeds them so moving up and down in the Air like an Ignis fatuus And thus by refractions deceive humane sight and frustrate these seeming demonstrations But leaving their ambiguous arguments and dubious opinions of men prone unto errour since the matter and form of them is undoubtedly held natural their effects portentious and observed as the forerunners of great calamities to be inflicted upon whole Kingdoms and parts of the habitable World And thus the Poet Silius Lib. 8. Non unus crine corusco Regnorum eversor rubuit lethale Cometes Pliny in his natural History makes a series or catalogue of these fiery apparitions which he divides into Ten kinds but my intention in this little treatise is to comprehend them under the title of Comets Blazing-Stars or fiery Impressions in general They are the hidden and secret mysteries of Nature portentious in their heights magnitudes courses and periods various and manifold in their colours and form but are generally observed representative lights and figures of Stars and their effects according to the opinion of Philosophers are to purge the Air by consuming those Meteors whether exhaled or ingendred in the Skies But these combustions inflame that Element by which we draw our vital breath and so begetteth Choler and makes us prone unto dissentions and civil broiles if