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A40528	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, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.; F. W. Observations on Dr. F. his booke of meteors.	1655 (1655)	Wing F2260A; ESTC R28245	64,212	186

is a Well that maketh men dull-witted that drink thereof There is another that causeth men to abhor lust Lechnus a Spring of Arcadia is good against abortions In Sicilia are two Springs of which one maketh a woman fruitful and the other barren In Sardinia be hot Wells that heale sore eyes In an Isle of Pontus the River Astares overfloweth the fields in which whatsoever sheep be fed doe alwaies give black milke In Aethiopia is a Lake whose water is like oyle Also many Springs of Oyl have broken forth of the Earth which commeth of the viscosity or fatnesse of the same earth The Lake Clitory in Italy maketh men that drink of it to abhor wine The Lake Pentasium as Solinus saith is deadly to Serpents and wholsome to men Seneca writeth of certain Lakes that will bear men which cannot swim And that in Syria is a Lake in which bricks do swim and no heavy thing will sinke It is said that the River Rhene in Germany will drown bastard Children that be cast in it but drive aland them that be lawfully begotten The River in Hypanis in Sythia every day brings forth little bladders out of which flyes do come that die that same night Matrona the River of Germany as the common people saie never passeth day but he taketh some prey Of the Sea THe Sea in this treatise hath place as a mixed substance for else the element of Waters being simple were not here to be spoken of The Sea is the naturall place of the Waters into which all Rivers and other Waters are received at the length And here it is to be understood that the very proper and naturall place of the water were to cover all the Earth for so be the elements placed the Earth lowest and round about the Earth the Water about the Water the Air and about the Ayr the fire But God the most mighty and wise creator of all things that the Earth might in some parts be inhabited of men and beasts commanded the Waters to be gathered into one place that the dry land might appeare and called the dry land Earth and the gathering of Waters he called Seas In the Sea are these two things to be considered the saltnesse and the ebbing and flowing Of the saltnesse of the Sea THe saltnesse of the Sea according to Aristotles mind is caused by the Sun that draweth from it all thin and sweet Vapors to make raine leaving the rest as the setling or bottome which is salt But men of our time peradventure more truely doe not take this for the only and sufficent cause to make so great a quantity of water salt but say that the Sea by Gods wisdom is gathered into such valleyes of the Earth as were otherwise barren and unfruitfull such Earths are salt the Sea Water then mixed with that Earth must needs be Salt else Rivers by Aristotles mind should be salt as well as the Sea The Reader may choose which opinion is most probable Of the ebbing and flowing THe ebbing and flowing of the Sea as Aristotle sermeth to teach is by reason of Exhalations that be under the Water which driveth it to and fro according to contrary bounds and limits as upward and downeward wide and narrow deepe and shallow This opinion of Aristotle also as more subtil then true experience teacheth men to mislike and to ascribe the cause of ebbing and flowing to the course of the Moone which ruleth over moysture as the Sunne doth over heat for from the new Moone to the full all humors do encrease and from the full to the new Moone decrease againe Also the very true time of the ebbing and flowing may be known by the course of the Moone with whom as the Lady of moysture we will close up the fourth book of m●yst and watery impressions The fifth Book Of earthly Meteors or bodies perfect●y mixed THis last Treatise containeth such bodies whose chiefe matter is the earth and are called perfectly mixed because they are not easily resolved into the chief matter whereof they are generated These are divided into four Kinds The first be divers sorts of Earth The second be Liquors concrete The third be Metalls and Metallikes The fourth be Stones This division is not altogether perfect both for that there be many of these Minerals which partake of two kinds and also for that the names of these kinds may be said of others Yet minding as plainly as can be to declare the things themselves the controversie and cavillation of names shall not greatly trouble us especially seeing we pretend not to teach Philosophers but such as need a ruder and plainer instruction They may therefore be content with this division which shall not serve them to dispute of these matters but to understand the truth of these things that they desire Of these foure therefore we will speak orderly and generally not minding to treat of every particular kind for that were infinite but to open such universall causes as they which have wit may learn if they list to apply unto all particulars Of Earths THe Earth is an element one of the four cold and dry most gross and solid most heavy and weighty the lowest of all other in place When I say an Element I meane a simple body uncompounded This Earth is no Meteor but as it was shewed in the water to the end there should be generation of things There is no Element that we have which is pure and simple but all are mixed and compound Our fire is grosse and compound so is our aire our water and our earth but the earth notably and above the rest is mixed For the pure and naturall Earth is dry and cold but we see much to be moist and much to be hot The natural earth is black of colour but we see many Earths white many yellow and many red So that first the greatest part of the Earth is mixed with water that maketh it to cleave together with aire and some fire which make an oylie fat or clammy earth as is clay made c. Another great part is dried not into the naturall drinesse of the first quality but as a thing once mixed and after dryed either by cold as sand gravell c. or else by heat as chalke oaker c. And yet somewhat more plainly and particularly to discourse upon these causes admitting the natural colour of the Earth to be black of the water to be blue of the aire to be white and of the fire to be ruddy it followeth that upon the mixtion of these colours or chiefe domination of them all things have their colour The grosse substance of the Earth therefore being diversly mixed with other Elements and those mixtures again being eftsoones altered by divers and sometime contrary qualities hath brought forth so many kinds of earth as clay marble chalke sand

elements Earth Water Aire and Fire one compassing another round about saving that the waters by Gods commandement are gathered into one place that the land might appear The highest is the spheare of the Fire which toucheth the hollownesse of the moons heaven the next is the aire which is in the hollownesse of the fire the aire within his hollownesse comprehendeth the water and the earth which both make but one spheare or Globe or as the common sort may understand it one ball So each element is within another as scales of a perch are one above anothes or to use a grosse similitude as the peeles of an Onion are one within another after the same sort from the highest heaven to the earth that is lowest one part that is greater compasseth round about another that is lesser But for this present purpose it is to be knowne that the aire is divided into three regions the highest the middle and the lowest The highest because it is next to the region of the fire is exceeding hot the lowest being next the earth and waters is temperate and by repercussion or striking backe of the Sunne beames waxeth hot and by absence of them is made cold being subject to winter and summer The middle region of the aire is alwaies exceeding cold partly because the sunne beames cannot be cast back so high and partly because the cold that is there betweene the heat above and the heat beneath it is so kept in that it can not get out so that it must needs be excessively cold for the water and the earth being both cold Elements after the Sunne setting in the night season doe coole the aire even to the middle region But in the morning the Sunne rising warmeth the aire so farre as his beames which are beaten backe from the earth and the water can extend and reach which is not so high as the middle region and by heat on both sides is inclosed and kept saving that a little thereof falleth downe in the night which the next day with much more is driven back againe Wherefore this region being so cold is dark and cloudy in so much that some doting Divines have imagined purgatory to be there in the middle region of the aire In the highest region be generated Comets or blazing stars and such like of divers sorts In the middle region clouds rain stormes winds c. In the lowest region dew frost hoar-frost mists bright rods candles burning about graves and gallowses where there is store of clamy fattie or oily substance also lights and flaming fires seen in fields c. And thus much for the general causes of all Meteors THE SECOND BOOKE Of Fiery Meteors A Fiery impression is an Exhalation set on fire in the highest or lowest region of the aire or else appearing as though it were set on fire and burning They are therefore divided into flames and Apparitions Flames are they which burn indeed and are kindled with fire These are discerned by four ways by the fashion of them by their place by the abundance of their matter and by the want of their matter Their placing is after the abundance and scarcity of the matter whereof they consist for if it be great heavy and grosse it cannot be carried so far as the middle region of the ayre and therefore is set on fire in the lowest region if it be not so great light and full of heat it passeth the middle region and ascendeth to the highest where it is easily kindled and set on fire According to their divers fashions they have divers names for they are called burning stubble torches dauncing or leaping Goates shooting or falling starres or candles burning beames round pillars spears shields Globes or bowles firebrands lampes flying Dragons or fire drakes painted pillars or broched steeples or blazing starres called Comets The time when these impressions doe most appeare is the night-season for if they were caused in the day time they could not be seen no more then the stars be seen because the light of the Sunne which is much greater dimmeth the brightness of them being lesser Of the generation of the impression called burning stubble or sparkles of fire The generation of this Meteor is this when the matter of the Exhalation is in all parts alike thin but not compacted or knit together then some part of it being caryed up into the highest Region by the fiery heat is set on fire before another part that cometh up after it and so being kindled by little and little flieth abroad like sparkles out of a chimney insomuch that the common people suppose that an infinite number of stars fall down whereas it is nothing else but the Exhalation that is thin kindled in many parts sparkling as when sawdust or cole-dust is cast into the fire Of Torches TOrches or firebrands are thus generated when the matter of the exhalation is long and not broad being kindled at one end thereof in the highest region of the aire it burneth like a torch or firebrand and so continueth till all the matter be burnt up and then goeth out none otherwise then a Torch when all the stuffe is spent must needs burne no longer Of dancing or leaping Goates DAncing Goates are caused when the exhalation is divided into two parts as when two torches be seen together and the flame appeareth to leap or dance from one part to the other much like as bals of wild fire dance up and down in the water Of shooting and falling stars A Flying shooting or falling star is when the exhalation being gathered as it were on a round heape and yet not throughly compacted in the highest part of the lowest region of the ayre being kindled by the sodaine cold of the middle region is beaten backe and so appeareth as though a starre should fall or slide from place to place Sometime it is generated after another sort for there is an exhalation long and narrow which being kindled at one end burneth swiftly the fire running from end to end as when a silk thred is set on fire at the one end Some say it is not so much set on fire as that it is direct under some Star in the firmament and so receiving light of that star seemeth to our eies to be a Star Indeed sometimes it may be so but that i● is not so alwayes nor yet most commonly it may be easily demonstrated The Epicureans as they are very grosse in determining the chiefe goodness so they are very fond in assigning the cause of this Meteor For they say that the stars fall out of the firmament that by the fall of them both thunder and lightning are caused for the lightning say they is nothing else but the shining of that Starre that falleth which falling into a waterie cloud and being quenched in it causeth that great thunder even as hot Iron maketh a noise if it be cast into cold water But it is

would rayne fire from Heaven and so it hath come to passe burning both Cities and Townes Then iudge how easy it was for God to raine fire upon Sodom and Gomorra for their sins and wickedness Of lights that goe before men and follow them abroad in the fields by the night season THere is also a kind of light that is seen in the night season seemeth to goe before men or to follow them leading them out of their way into waters and other dangerous places It is also very often seene in the night of them that saile on the Sea and sometime will cleave to the mast of the Shippe or other high parts sometime slide round about the Shippe and either rest in one part till it goe out or else be quenched in the water This impression seene on the land is called in Latine Ignis fatuus foolish fire that hurteth not but onely feareth fooles That which is seene on the Sea if it be but one is named Helena if it be two it is called Castor and Pollux The foolish fire is an Exhalation kindled by meanes of violent moving when by cold of the night in the lowest region of the ayre it is beaten downe and then commonly if it be light seeketh to ascend upward and is sent down againe so it danceth up and downe Else if it move not up and downe it is a great lumpe of glewish or oyly matter that by moving of the heat in it selfe is enflamed of it selfe as moyst hay will bek indled of it selfe In hot and fennie Countries these lights are often seene and where is abundance of such unctuous and fat matter as about Church-yards where through the corruption of the bodies there buried the earth is full of such substance wherefore in Church-yards or places of common buriall oftentimes are such lights seene which ignorant and superstitious fooles have thought to be soules tormented in the fire of Purgatory Indeed the Devill hath used these lights although they be naturally caused as strong delusions to captive the minds of men with feare of the Popes Purgatory whereby he did open injury to the blood of Christ which onely purgeth us from all our sins and delivereth us from all torments both temporall and eternall according to the saying of the wise-man The soules of the righteous are in the Hands of God and no torment toucheth them But to returne to the lights in which there are yet two things to be considered First why they lead men out of their way And secondly why they seeme to follow men and goe before them The cause why they lead men out of the way is that men while they take heed to such lights and are also sore afraid they forget their way then being once but a little out of their way they wander they wot not whither to waters pits and other very dangerous places Which when at length they hap the way home will tell a great tale how they have beene led about by a spirit in the likenesse of Fire Now the cause why they seeme to goe before men or to follow them some men have said to be the moving of the ayre by the going of the man which ayre moved should drive them forward if they were before and draw them after if they were behind But this is no reason at all that the Fire which is oftentimes three or foure miles distant from the man that walketh should be moved to and fro by that ayre which is moved through his walking but rather the moving of the ayre and the mans eyes causeth the fire to seeme as though it moved as the Moone to children seemeth if they are before it to run after them if she be before them to run before them that they cannot overtake her though she seeme to be very neere them Wherefore these lights rather seeme to move then that they be moved indeed Of Helena Castor and Pollux WHen the like substance in the lowest region of the ayr over the Sea by the like occasion is set on fire if be one only it is called Helena if their be two they are called Castor and Pollux These impressions will oftentimes cleave to the mast and other parts of Ships by reason of the claminesse and fatnesse of matter Helena was of the Heathen men taken as a Goddesse the daughter of Jupiter and Leda Castor and Pollux were her brethren Helena was the occasion that Troy was destroyed therefore the Mariners by experience trying that one flame of fire appearing along signified tempest at hand supposed the same flame to be the goddesse Helena of whom they look'd for nothing but destruction But when two lights are seen together they are a token of fair weather and good luck the Mariners therefore beleeved that they were Castor and Pollux which sayling to seek their sister Helena being carried to Troy by Paris were never seen after and thought to be translated into the number of the Gods that gave good successe to them that sayl as we read in the last Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles that the Ship wherein S. Paul sayled had a badge of Castor and Pollux A naturall cause why they may thus foreshew either tempest or calmnesse is this One flame alone may give warning of a tempest because that as the matter thereof is compact and not dissolved so it is like that the matter of the tempest which never wanteth as wind and clouds is still together and not dissipated then is it like not long after to arise By two flames together may be gathered that as this Exhalation which is very thick is divided so the thick matter of tempests is dissolved and scattered abroad by the same cause that this is divided Therefore not without a reason the Mariner to his mates may promise a prosprous course Of flames that appeare upon the haires of men or beasts THere is another kind of fiery impression which is flames of fire upon the haires of men and beasts especially horses These are sometime clammy Exhalations scatered abroad in the air in small parts which in the night by resistance of the cold are kindled cleaving on horses eares on mens heads and shoulders that ride or walke In that they cleave upon hayres it is by the same reason that the dew will be seen also upon haires or garments whose wooll is high as frize mantels and such like Another sort of these flames are caused when mens or beasts bodies being chafed send forth a ●at and clammy sweat which is in like manner kindled as the sparks of fire that are seene when a black horse is curried Livius reporteth of Servius Tullius that as he lay asleep being a child his hair seemed to be all on a flame which for all that did not burn his hair or hurt him The like history he reciteth of one Marius a Knight of Rome that as he made an Oration to his Soldiers in Spain they saw his head

the Thunder-clap be heard yet it is not caused before the noyse if any Thunder at all follow but either is after it or with it Wherefore that we see it before we hear the Thunder may be ascribed either to the quickness of our Sight that preventeth the Hearing or else to the swift moving of the fire and the light thereof to our eyes and the slow motion of the Sound unto our ears and Hearing These three kindes of Lightnings are more fearfull then hurtfull but the fourth seldom passeth without some dammage doing Of the fourth kind called Fulmen THe most dangerous violent and hurtfull kind of lightning is called Fulmen whose generation is such as followeth What time a hot Exhalation is enclosed in a cloud and breaking the same bur●reth forth it is set on fire and with wonderfull great force stricken down toward the Earth The crack of thunder that is made when this Lightning breaketh out is sudden short and great like the sound of a Gunne And oftentimes a great stone is blowne out with it which they call the Thunder-bolt which is made on this maner In the Exhalation which is gathered out of the Earth is much Earthly matter which clortering together by moysture being clammy by nature consisting of brimstone and other metalick substance by the excessive heat is hardened as a brick is in the fire and with the mighty force of the Exhalation strongly cast toward the Earth and striketh down steeples and high buildings of stone and of wood passeth thorow them and setteth them on fire it cleaveth trees and setteth them on fire and the stronger the thing is that resisteth it the more harme it doth to it It is sharp-poynted at one end and thick at the other end which is caused by reason that the moyster part as heavier goeth to the bottome of it so is the top small and the bottome thick Men write that the thunder-bolt goeth never above five foot deep when it falleth upon the Earth which standeth with reason both because the strength of it is weakned before it come so neer the ground and also because the continual thicknesse of the Earth breaketh the force were it never so great Both Aristotle Seneca and Plinius divide this lightning into three kinds Of the first THe first is drie which burneth not to be felt but divideth and appeareth with wonderful swiftnesse For being subtil and pure it passeth thorow the pores of any thing be they never so small and such thing● as give place unto it it hurteth not but such things ●s resist it divideth and peirceth For ●t will melt money in mens purses the purses being whole and unharmed Yea ●t will melt a sword in the scabberd and not hurt the scabberd at all A wine ●essell it will cleave and yet the wine shall be so dull that by the space of three dayes it will not runne out It will hurt a mans hand and not his glove It will burne a mans bones within him ●o ashes and yet his skinne and flesh shall appearefaire as though nothing had come to him Yet otherwise the whole man in the moment of an houre shall be burned to ashes whereas his clothes shall not seeme to have been touched It will also kill the childe in the mothers belly and not hurt the mother And all because the matter is very subtill and thinne burning and passing thorow whatsoever it be that will not give it free passage Of the second kind The Second kinde is moyst and because it is very thin it burneth not to ashes but only it blasteth or scorcheth trees corn and grass and by reason of the moystness it maketh all things black that it commeth neer as moyst wood burning is smoaky and maketh things neer it to be black and smoaky Of the Third kinde THe Third kinde is most like our common fire that wee have here on the earth of gross and earthly substance wherefore it leaveth a print where it hath been or else consumeth it into ashes if it be such a body as will be burned with fire Of the Marvels of Lightning and their causes BEside the wonderful effects of lightning that have been already remembred there be many other which hereafter ensue with the reason and causes unto them belonging as thus The nature of Lightning is to poyson beasts that are stricken therewith as though they had been bit by a Serpent The cause of this is that the matter of Lightning is much infected with Brimstone other poysonous metallike substance because it is thin and giveth them passage into every part of the body It is notable that Seneca writeth how winevessels of wood being burned with lightning the wine would stand still and not run out the reason hereof is the swift alteration and change whereby also all the clamminesse of the wine is drawne to the outward most part and so keepeth in the wine as in a skin that by the space of three days it will not run It will also poyson wine insomuch that they which drink thereof shall either be mad or dye of it the cause hereof was set● forth before Lightning that striketh a poysonous beast purgeth it from the poyson in so much that it causeth a Serpent or Snake which it killeth to breed worms which otherwise it would not do but being purged from the natural poyson by the swift peircing of the Lightning nothing letteth but that it may breed wormes as all other corrupt flesh will doe If Lightning strike one that sleepeth it openeth his eyes and of one that waketh it shutteth the eyes The cause is this that it waketh him that sleepeth and killeth him before he can close his eyes againe And him that waketh it so amazeth that he winketh as he will doe at any sudden chance so he dyeth before he can open his eyes againe All living things turne their face toward the stroke of the lightning because it is their nature to turne their head if any thing come suddenly behind them The rest that have their face toward it when it commeth never turn before they be killed The Reason why it killeth the child in the mothers womb not hurting the mother is the tenderness of the one and the strength of the other when the lightning is not vehement otherwise both should dye together Sometime Lightning burneth onely the garments shooes or hair of men not hurting their bodies and then the Exhalation is nothing vehement Sometime it killeth a man and there appeareth no wound without neither any hurt within no not so much as any sign of burning for then the Exhalation which being kindled is called Lightning is wonderfull subtil and thin so swiftly passing thorow that it leaveth no mark or token behind it They that behold the Lightning are either made blind or their face swelleth or they become Lepers for that Fiery

a certain watry thing and yet is not water so Exhalation hath a certain earthly nature in it but yet it is not earth For the better understanding of Vapors understand that they be as it were fumes or smokes warme and moist which will easily bee resolved into water much like to the breath that proceedeth out of a mans mouth or out of a pot of water standing on the fire These vapours are drawn up from the waters and watery places by the heat of the Sun even unto the middle region of the aire and there after divers manner of meeting with coldnesse many kind of moist Meteors are generated as sometimes clouds and raine sometime snow and hail and that such Vapours are so drawn up by the Sunne it is plaine by experience for if there be a plash of water on a smooth and hard stone standing in the heat of the Sun it will soon be drie which is none otherwise but that the Sun draweth up the water in thinne Vapors for no man is so fond to say that it can sink into stone or mettal and it is as great folly to think it is consumed to nothing for it is a general rule That that which is once a thing cannot by changing become nothing wherefore it followeth that the water on the stone as also on the earth is for the most part drawn up when the stone or earth is dryed Exhalations are as smokes that be hot and dry which because they be thinne and lighter then Vapors passe the lowest and middle Region of the aire and are carryed up even to the highest Region where for the excessive heat by neerness of the fire they are kindled and cause many kind of impressions They are also sometimes viscose that is to say clammy by reason whereof they cleaving together and not being dispersed are after divers sorts set on fire and appear sometimes like Dragons sometimes like Goats sometimes like candles sometimes like spears By that which is spoken of Vapours and Exhalations it is evident that out of the fire and aire no matter whereof Meteors should consist can be drawn because of their subtilty and thinnesse For all Exhalation is by making a grosser body more thinne but the fire we mean the elemental fire and not the fire of the Kitchin chimney is so subtil and thinne that it cannot be made thinner likewise the aire is so thinne that if it be made thinner it is changed into fire and as the fire if it were made thicker would become aire so the aire being made grosser would be turned into water Wherefore to conclude this part the great quantity of matter that causeth these Meteors is taken out of the earth and the water As for the aire and the fire they are mixed with this matte● as with all other things but not so abundantly that they may be said th● material cause of any Meteor thoug● without them none can be generated The efficient cause of all Meteors is tha● caus which maketh them even as the Carpenter is the efficient cause of an house This cause is either first or second The first and efficient cause is God the worker of all wonders according to that testimonie of the Psalmist which saith Fire haile snow ice wind and storme doe his will and commandment he sendeth snow like wooll c. Almightie God therefore being the first principall and universall cause efficient of all natural works and effects is also the first cause of these effects whose profit is great and operation marvellous The second cause efficient is double either remote that is to say farre off or next of all The farther cause of them as of all other naturall effects is the same the Sun with the other Planets and Stars and the very heaven it self in which they are moved But chiefly the Sunne by whose heat all or at least wise the most part of the vapors and Exhalations are drawn up The next cause efficient as the first qualities are heat and cold which cause divers effects in Vapors Exhalations But to return to the heat of the Sun which is a very neere cause it is for this purpose two wayes considered One way as it is meane and temperate Otherwise as it is vehement and burning The meane is by which he draweth vapors out of the water and exhalations out of the earth and not onely draweth them out but also lifteth them up very high from the earth into the aire where they are turned into divers kinds of Meteors The burning heat of the Sunne is by which he burneth dissipateth and consumeth the vapors and exhalations before he draweth them up so that of them no Meteors can be generated These two heats proceed from the Sun either in respect of the place or the time but most properly according to the casting of his beames either directly or undirectly In place where the Sunnes beames strike directly against the earth and the water the heat is so great that it burneth up the Exhalations and Vapours so that there are no fiery Meteors much lesse watery as it is in the South parts of the world under and neere to the Equinoctiall line But in places where the beames are cast indirectly and obliquely and that where they are not too nigh to the direct beams nor too far off from them there is a moderate heat drawing out great abundance of matter so that in those Countries many Meteors of many sorts are generated as in the far North parts are few but watry impressions Also in Autumn and Spring are oftner Meteors seene then in Summer and Winter except it be in such places where the Summer and Winter are of the temper of the Spring and Autumne Let this be sufficient for the Efficient causes of impressions as well first and principall as second and particular Concerning the formal and finall cause we have little to say because the one is so secret that it is known of no man the other so evident that it is plaine to all men The essentiall Form of all substances Gods wisedome comprehendeth the universall chiefe and last End of all things is the glory of God Middle Ends if they may be so called of these impressions are manifold profits to Gods creatures to make the earth fruitfull to purge the aire to set forth his power to threaten his vengeance to punish the world to move to repentance all which are referred to one end of Gods eternall glory ever to be prased Amen Of the places in which they are generated THe places in which Meteors are caused be either the aire or the earth in the air be generated rain hail snow dew blazing stars thunder lightning c. In the earth be welles springs earthquakes metals minerals c. made and as it were in their mothers belly begotten and fashioned But for the better understanding hereof such as have not tasted the principles of Philosophy must consider that there be foure