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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28284	The natural and experimental history of winds &c. written in Latine by the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; translated into English by R.G., gent.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686. Brief discourse touching the office of Lord Chancellor of England.; Gentili, Robert, 1590-1654?	1671 (1671)	Wing B306; ESTC R31268	123,856	142

follows Cardinal North. North and by East Med. Maj. North North-East or Aquilo North East and by North or Meses Semi-Card North East North East and by East Med. Maj. East North East or Caecias East and by North. Cardinal East or Subsolanus East by South Med. Maj. East South East or Vulturnus South East by East Semi-Card South East South East and by South Med. Maj. South South East or Phaenicias South and by East Cardinal South South by West Med. Maj. South South West or Libonotus South West and by South Semi Card. South West or Libs South West and by West Med. Maj. West South West or Africus West and by South Cardinal West or Favonius West and by North. Med. Maj. West North West or Corus North West and by West Semi Card. North West North West and by North or Thrascias Med. Maj. North North West or Circius North and by West There are also other Names of winds Apeliotes the East wind Argestes the South West Olympias the North West Scyron the South East Hellespontius the East North East for these we care not Let it suffice that we have given constant and fixed names of winds according to the order and disposition of the regions of the Heavens we do not set much by the Comments of Authors since the Authors themselves have little in them Free Winds To the sixth Article 1 THere is not a Region of the Heaven from whence the wind doth not blow Yea if you divide the Heaven into as many Regions as there be degrees in the Horizon you shall find winds sometimes blowing from every one of them 2. There are some whole Countries where it never rains or at least very seldom but there is no Country where the wind doth not blow and that frequently General Winds To the second Article 1. Concerning general winds Experiments are plain and it is no marvel seeing that especially within the Tropicks we may find places condemned among the Ancients It is certain that to those who sail between the Tropicks in a free and open sea there blows a constant and setled wind which the seamen call a Breeze from East to West This wind is not of so little force but that partly by its own blowing and partly by its guiding the current of the Sea it hindreth Sea-men from coming back again the same way they went to Peru. 2. In our Seas in Europe when it is fair dry weather and no particular winds stirring there blows a soft kind of gale from the East which followeth the Sun 3. Our common Observations do admit that the higher Clouds are for the most part carried from East to West and that it 's so likewise when here below upon the earth either there is a great calm or a contrary wind and if they do not so always it is because sometimes particular winds blow aloft which overwhelm this general wind A Caution If there be any such general wind in order to the motion of the Heaven it is not so firm nor strong but that it gives way to particular winds But it appears most plainly amongst the Tropicks by reason of the larger circles which it makes And likewise it is so when it blows on high for the same cause and by reason of its free course Wherefore if you will take it without the Tropicks and near the earth where it blows most gently and slowly make trial of it in an open and free air in an extream calm and in high places and in a body which is very moveable and in the after-noon for at that time the particular Eastern wind blows more sparingly Injunction Observe diligently the Vains and Weather-cocks upon the tops and Towers of Churches whether in extream calms they stand continually towards the West or not An Indirect Experiment 4. It is certain that here with us in Europe the Eastern wind is drying and sharp the West wind contrariwise moist and nourishing May not this be by reason that it being granted that the Air moves from East to West it must of necessity be that the East wind whose blast goeth the same way must needs disperse and attenuate the Air whereby the Air is made biting and dry but the western wind which blows the contrary way turns the Airs back upon it self and thickens it whereby it becomes more dull and at length moist An Indirect Experiment 5. Consider the Inquisition of the motion and flowing of waters whether they move from East to West for if the two extreams Heaven and Waters delight in this Motion the Air which is in the midst will go near to participate of the same Caution We call the two last Experiments indirect because they do directly shew the thing which we aim at but by consequence which we also gladly admit of when we want direct Experiments Injunction That the Breeze blows plentifully between the Tropicks is most certain the cause is very ambiguous The cause may be because the Air moves according to the Heaven But without the Tropicks almost unperceiveably by reason of the smaller Circles which it makes within the Tropicks manifestly because it makes bigger Circles Another cause may be because all kind of heat dilates and extends the Air and doth not suffer it to be contained in its former place and by the dilation of the Air there must needs be an impulsion of the contiguous Air which produceth this Breeze as the Sun goes forward and that is more evident within the Tropicks where the Sun is more scorching without it is hardly perceived And this seems to be an instance of the Cross or a decisory instance To clear this doubt you may enquire whether the Breeze blow in the night or no for the wheeling of the Air continues also in the night but the heat of the Sun does not 6. But it is most certain that the Breeze doth not blow in the night but in the morning and when the morning is pretty well spent yet that instance doth not determine the Question whether the nightly condensation of the Air especially in those Countrys where the days and nights are not more equal in their length than they are differing in their heat and cold may dull and confound that Natural Motion of the Air which is but weak If the air participates of the motion of the Heaven it does not only follow that the East wind concurs with the motion of the Air and the West wind strives against it but also that the North wind blows as it were from above and the South wind as from below here in our Hemisphere where the Antartick Pole is under ground and the Artick Pole is elevated which hath likewise been observed by the Ancients though staggeringly and obscurely But it agrees very well with our modern Experience because the Breeze which may be a motion of the air is not a full East but a North-East wind Stayed or certain Winds To the third Article Connexion AS in the Inquisition of General winds men

eminent in heat and cold For heat doth not diffuse it self in heating by the communication of the first heat but only by Excitation of the parts of the body to that Motion which is the form of heat of which we spake in the first Vindemiation of heat so that heat is far more slowly and difficulty excited in a stone or Metal than it is in Air by reason of the Inability and unreadiness of those bodies to that Motion so that it is likely that there may be such matters within the Bowels of the earth as do utterly refuse to be heated by reason that through their greater condensation they are destitute of that spirit from which this Motion of Excitation first begins So the Load-stone doth endure Iron with a new disposition of parts yet it loseth nothing of its vertue so the Leaven of Bread the Flower or Yeast of Drink and the runnet which coagulates milk and likewise some poisons do excite and invite Motion in a quantity of Meal or Beer or Cheese successively and continuately not so much by the power of the excitor as by the predisposition and easie yeelding of the excited Let the thirteenth Motion be the Motion of Impression which motion is likewise of the same kind as the motion of assimilation and is the most subtile of all Diffusive motions Yet we thought good to place it in a proper species because of the notable difference which is between it and the former two For the plain and simple Motion of assimilation doth transform the bodies themselves so that if you take away the first mover it nothing concerns those which follow for the first kindling into Flame or the first turning into air doth nothing concern the flame or the air which succeeds in Generation Likewise the Motion of Excitation remains for a very long time the first mover being taken away as in a heated body the first heater being laid away in Iron excited the Load-stone being taken away in the heap of Meal the Leaven being laid aside But the motion of Impression though it be Diffusive and Transitive yet it seems to depend upon the first mover so that it ever being taken away or ceasing it presently fails or perishes so that it is ended in a moment or in a very little time Wherefore we useto call those motions of Assimilation and Excitation the motion of Jupiters Generation because the Generation remains and this motion of Impression the motion of the Generation of Saturn because that as soon as it is born it is devoured and swallowed up And this motion manifests it self in three things in the beams or glimpses of light in the stroak of sounds and magnetick forces as concerning communication For the light being taken away the colours presently perish together with the other Images of it The first stroak and shaking of the body caused thereby being ended presently after the sound perisheth For sounds are tossed up and down by Winds as it were by Waters yet you must more diligently observe that the sound doth not last so long as there is a resounding For the Bell being Rung the sound seems to continue for a long time whereby a man may easily fall into an error if he think or imagine that sound doth stick or as it were swim in the air all that while which is most false For that resounding is not the same sound in Number but is only renewed and this is made manifest by the stopping or cohibition of the stricken or smitten body for if the Bell be strongly stayed or withheld and kept immoveable presently the sound perisheth and it sounds no more as in strings if after the first stroak the string be touched with the finger as in the Harp or with the quill as in Virginals presently the resounding ceaseth The Load-stone being taken away the Iron presently falls But the Moon cannot be removed from the Sea nor the earth from any thing that is ponderous when it falls therefore there can be no trial made of them but howsoever the reason is alike Let the fourteenth Motion be the motion of Configuration or Situation by which bodies seem to desire not any Coition nor separation but a Situation Collocation and Configuration with others But this is a most abstruse and hidden motion neither hath it been well enquired about and in some things it seems as it were to be incausable though indeed as we believe it be not so For if one should ask why the heaven turneth and wheeleth from East to West rather than from West to East or why it turns about those Poles which are set about the Ursas or Bears rather than about Orion or any other part of the Heaven This Question seems to be as it were some Extasis seeing that such things should rather through experience be received as positive and there are indeed in Nature some ultimate and incausable things but this is none of them For we hold this to be done by a certain harmony and consent of the world which is not yet come into observation but if the Motion of the earth be admitted to be from West to East the same Questions do remain for it also moves upon some Poles and why at last should these Poles be placed where they are rather than any where else Also the verticity and direction and Declination of the Loadstone are referred to this motion Likewise there are found as well in Natural as Artificial bodies especially those which are consistent and not fluid a certain collocation and posture of parts and as it were wooll and threads which must be diligently searched out and enquired after as being such that without the finding of them those bodies cannot be easily touched nor guided but those Circulations in liquid things by which they while they are pressed before they can free themselves do relieve each other that they may bear that compression equally we do more truely assign to the motion of Liberty Let the fifteenth Motion be the motion of Pertransition or the motion according to the issues or holes by which the vertues of bodies are more or less hindred or forwarded by their mediums or means according to the Nature of the operating bodies or vertues and also of the means For one medium or means is convenient for the light another for the sound another for heat and cold another for magnetick Vertues and for other things respectively Let the sixteenth motion be the Regal or Politick motion for so we call it By which the predominant and commanding parts do bridle tame subdue and order the rest of the parts and force them to be gathered together and separated to stop move and be placed not according to their own desires but as it is in order and expedient for the well being of that commanding part so that it is as it were a kind of Government and Policy which the ruling part exerciseth over the subjected parts And this Motion is most eminent in the spirits of

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

39. Bellowing Thunders which do as it were pass along presage winds and those which make a sharp and unequal noise presage storms both of wind and rain 40. When it lightens in a clear sky winds are at hand and rain from that part where it lightens But if it lightens in diverse parts there will follow cruel and horrid tempests 41. If it lightens in the cold quarters of the Heavens namely the East and North Hail will follow if in the warmer namely South and West we shall have rain and a warm sky 42. Great heats after the Summer Soistice and commonly with Thunder and Lightning and if those come not there will be wind and rain for many days 43. The Globe of Flame which the Ancient called Castor which is seen by Mariners and Seafaring men at Sea if there be but one presages a cruel tempest Castor is the dead brother and much more if it stick not close to the Mast but dances up and down But if they be twins and Pollux the living brother be present and that when the tempest is high it is a good presage But if there be three namely if Helen the Plague of all things come in it will be a more cruel tempest so that one seems to shew the indigested matter of the storm Two a digested and ripe matter Three or more an abundance that will hardly be dispersed 44. If we see the Clouds drive very fast when it is a clear sky we must look for winds from that way from which the Clouds are driven But if they wheel and tumble up together when the Sun drawes near to that part in which they are tumbled up together they will begin to scatter and sever and if they part most towards the North it betokens wind if towards the South rain 45. If at Sun-setting there arise black and dark Clouds they presage rain If against the Sun namely in the East the same night if near the Sun in the West the next day with winds 46. The clearing of a Cloudy sky if it begins against the wind which then blows signifies clear fair weather with the wind it betokens nothing but the thing remains uncertain 47. There are sometimes seen several as it were Chambers or joined Stories of Clouds one above the other so as Gilbertus affirms he hath seen five of them together and always the blackest are lowermost though sometimes it appears otherwise because the whitest do more allure the sight A double Conjunction of stories if it be thick shews approaching rain especially if the lower Cloud seem as it were big with Child more Conjunctions presage continuance of rain 48. If Clouds spread abroad like Fleeces of wool here and there they foreshew Tempests but if they lie one a top of another like skales or tiles they presage drought and clear weather 49. Feathered Clouds like to the boughs of a Palm tree or the flowers of a Rainbow are Prognosticks of present rain or immediately to follow 50. When Hills and Hillocks looks as though they wore Caps by reason of the Clouds lying upon them and encompassing them it presages imminent Tempests 51. Amber or Gold Colour Clouds before Sun-setting that have as it were gilded Helms or borders after the Sun begins to be quite down foreshew fair clear weather 52. Grayish and as it were Clay-coloured Clouds shew that rain with wind are drawing on 53. Some petty Cloud shewing it self suddenly having not been seen before and all the skie clear about it especially if it be in the West and about Noon shews there is a storm a comming 54. Clouds and Mists ascending and going upward presage rain and that this be done suddenly so that they be as it were sucked up they presage rain but if they fall and reside in the Valleys they presage fair weather 55. A big Cloud growing white which the Ancients called a white Tempest in Summer is a fore-runner of small hail like Comfits in Winter snow 56. A fair and clear Autumn presages a windy winter a windy winter a rainy spring a rainy spring a clear summer a clear summer a windy Autumn So that the year as the Proverb goes is seldom its own debtor and the same order of seasons will scarce happen two years together Fires upon the Hearth when they look paler than they are accustomed and make a murmuring noise within themselves do presage tempests And if the flame rises bending and turning it signifies wind chiefly and when the snuffs of Lamps and Candles grow like Mushromes with broad heads it is a sign of rainy weather 58. Coals shining bright and sparkling over-much signifie wind 59. When the superficies of the Sea is calm and smooth in the Harbour and yet murmures within it self though it doth not swell signifies wind 60. The shoars resounding in a calm and the sound of the Sea it self with a clear noise and a certain Eccho heard plainer and further than ordinary presages winds 61. If in a calm and smooth sea we espie froth here and there or white Circles or Bubbles of water they are Prognosticks of winds and if these Presages be very apparent they foreshew rough tempests 62. If in a rough sea there appear a shining froth which they call sealungs it foreshews a lasting tempest for many days 63. If the sea swell silently and rises higher than ordinary within the Harbour or the Tide come in sooner than it uses to do it foretels wind 64. Sound from the Hils and the murmure of woods growing lowder and a noise in open Champion fields portends wind Also a prodigiius murmuring of the Element without Thunder for the most part presages winds 65. Leaves and straws playing on the ground without any breath of wind that can be felt and the Down of Plants flying about Feathers swimming and playing upon the water signifie that wind is near at hand 66. Water Fowls flying at one another and flying together in flocks especially sea-Mews and Gulls flying from the sea and lakes and hastning to the banks and shoars especially if they make a noise and play upon dry land they are Prognosticks of winds especially if they do so in the morning 67. But contrariwise sea fowls going to the water and beating with their wings chattering and bathing themselves especially the Crow are all presages of storms 68. Duckers and Ducks cleanse their feathers with their Bills against wind but Geese with their importunate crying call for rain 69. A Hern flying high so that it sometimes flies over a low Cloud signifies wind But Kites when they flye high foreshew fairweather 70. Crows as it were barking after a sobbing manner if they continue in it do presage winds but if they catchingly swallow up their voice again or croak a long time together it signifies that we shall have some showrs 71. A chattering Owl was thought by the Ancients to fore-tel change of weather if it were fair rain if Cloudy fair weather But with us the Owl making a clear and