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A13217	Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.	Swan, John, d. 1671.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 23516; ESTC S118043	379,702	552

before when there was onely light in those thinne parts in stead of fire And thus have I shewed you the naturall cause of all fiery Meteors Sect. 2. Parag. 6. Of watery Meteors and their severall kindes NOw it followeth that I speak something of watery Meteors and shew after what manner they are generated They be called watery because they consist most of water their substance being that kinde of Exhalation which we call Vapor and not Fumus And that which in the first place offereth it self is Nubes a Cloud Artic. I. Of Clouds I Begin therefore with clouds And a cloud is a vapour or Exhalation cold and moist drawn from the earth out of wet or watery places by heat of the Sunne into the middle Region of the aire where by cold it is so thickened and knit together that it hangeth untill either the own weight or some resolution causeth it to fall If it be a great cloud it is Nubes if it be but a little one it is called Nubecula The name comes ab obnubendo id est operiendo coelum from hiding or covering the heavens because a cloud through the thicknesse that the vapour is condensed into hindereth that a lesse portion of the heavens is conspicuous then otherwise would be It is also two-fold either fertill or barren A fertill or fruitfull cloud affordeth rain but a barren cloud doth not because it is at length by the blasts of winde and vertue of the heavenly bodies turned into thin aire And to either of these clouds belong motion colour Their motion is caused by the winde most commonly through whose force they are driven to and fro But if the windes blow not then they are drawn along by the Sun and made a companion with him in his travels alwayes moving that way which the Sunne goeth Concerning their colours I spake before in Paragraph 5. Article 2. And therefore here you may expect the lesse yet let me say that they are either simple or mixt Black or white are simple because they consist of no other colours But red green and the rest are mixt They appeare white when the vapour is thin for then it is easily pierced by the light which disperseth it self into it But when they appeare of a black colour then the vapour is thick and more closely condensed insomuch that the beams of light cannot be admitted As for their rednesse it may be caused two wayes according to Goclenius either through the adustion of the aire magno aestu incensum as he saith Or propter retusum radium Solis by reason of the beams of the Sunne beat back again which falling upon a watery cloud that is thickly condensed pierceth not but being doubled causeth rednesse as in the morning and this is a signe of rain but the other is not For the other rednesse is in such a cloud as sheweth the drinesse and adustion of the aire the cloud it self consisting of a smokie humid substance unto which is joyned a kinde of drie and adust matter This therefore is a signe of fair weather being seen in the evening towards the place of Sun-setting according as it hath been said of old Serò rubens coelum mané indicat esse serenum Concerning green clouds they are altogether watery and as it were already resolved into water which receiving into them the light appeare green like unto water in a great vessel or in the sea and deep rivers Blew clouds come something neare to the nature of black excepting that the black are thicker And note If when the Sunne sets there appeare or arise black dark clouds it portendeth rain Also observe the place opposite to the Sunne at his setting viz. the East and see if that be cleare for if it be pestered with black clouds there is but small hope of fair weather that night or the next day The common opinion is that the height of the clouds is not above nine miles But it is agreeable to no reason at all why any certain height should be determined for they are of unequall heights differing both according to the matter of their composure and also according to the time of the yeare being lower in winter then in summer for when the sunne hath the greatest force they then ascend the higher and in his smaller force they hang the lower By which it appeareth that the sunne helpeth to uphold them and keepeth them although heavier then the aire even in the aire for they sometimes also follow his motion But note that it is not the sunne alone which upholds them for the aire it self is also a cause of their not falling and that both within the clouds and also without them within the clouds for the clouds are of a spungie nature and full of pores which are filled with aire le●…t there should be vacuum and this aire heaveth them up causing them to aspire without the clouds also because they do as it were float up and down in the aire as some heavie things do in the water and yet not sink unlesse their substance be too earthie and heavie Artic. 2. Of Rain FRom clouds I proceed to speak of rain And rain is nothing else but as it were the melting of a cloud turned into water Or according to Aristotle it is the flux of a fertill cloud resolved by the heat of the sunne into distilling drops of water which being depressed with their own weight fall down to the earth For when the matter of the cloud being a cold vapour and earthly humour is drawn from the earth and waters into the middle Region of the aire and there thickened through the cold dwelling in the confines of that place it is at the last dissolved and cannot therefore but fall down in drops which drops if they be great are caused either by the quick resolution of the cloud or else by the little distance of it from the earth But if they be smaller then either the great distance or slow resolution maketh them of no ample quantitie The first of these is named nimbus the other is called imber And note that the dissolution as hath been said proceedeth out of heat which is not onely of the sunne but of windes also of an hot temper as is seen in the southern winde which bloweth up rain sooner then any other winde And as for rains which come from cold coasts and at cold times of the yeare if the cloud be not at such times as some may think dissolved through the heat of any winde it dissolveth it self through its own weight being a little holpen by the sunne for it continueth in the aire even whilest it can stay no longer And at these times also if we consider all aright we shall finde that the winde somewhat helpeth although not so speedily as from hotter coasts for naturally there is a kinde of heat in every winde because it is an Exhalation hot and drie although by accident as from

Some have written that it is a bird without legs but Mr. Purchas in two severall places alledgeth the testimonie of one Pigafetta who witnesseth that it is a bird having two feet as well as other birds but as soon as they be taken they are cut off with a great part of their body where of a little is left with the head and neck which being hardened and dryed in the sunne seem to be so bred And other authours witnesse that there was one of them sold to the Emperour in the yeare 1605 which had legs on it Cardan likewise mentions this bird but seeing his report is differing from our modern writers and travellers I forbear to rehearse it Howbeit they who reade Gesner shall see it in his third book of birds together with a figure of this fowl But out of Asia look yet once again into America and then you shall see as strange a winged creature as any we have heard of yet I mean the New Spains Cucuios which whether I may call it bird or beetle I cannot tell He is very little and of the thicknesse of a mans thumbe or there abouts but amongst the works of God he is a most admirable wonder For he carrieth foure lights with him which shine in the night two in the seat of his eyes and two which he sheweth when he openeth his wings And as for his wings he hath two very strong and hard under which he hath two other little wings very thin which appeare not but when he extendeth his other to fly The Indians use them in stead of candles and saith my authour if a man tie five or six of them together they yeeld as much light as a torch And loe just now as if it were by the light of this creature me thinks I see the painfull and industrious Bees fly flocking to their hives These be those winged workmen which whether their profit or admiration be greater I am scarce able to say For they do not onely busily bestirre themselves to gather hony which is very usefull in the life of man but they do work it up in most strange manner and keep it in their waxen cells so rarely built that all the men which the world affords are not able to do the like Neither is this all for they live so as they may be true patterns of needfull government keeping themselves under the subjection of a king and order of laws They may well be likewise said to have the soveraignty and preeminence above all others of this kinde because the rest come farre short of their perfections It is a creature having foure wings and bloudlesse the onely crafts-master of hony Their eyes are somewhat of a horny substance hid deep in their bodies as is also their sting which when they lose they die Vitam in vulnere ponunt because their sting and entrails come away together They want neither tongue nor teeth and out of their short feet or stumps there grow forth as it were two fingers wherein they carry a littlestone for the poysing their bodies in stormy windie tempestuous weather it being a great means to keep them from blowing away and losing their home Neither can it be denied but that by nature they are much different for some saith one are more domesticall and tam●… and others again are altogether wilde uplandish and agrestiall Those former are much delighted with the familiar friendship custome company of men but the other can in no wise brook or endure them therefore they keep their trade of hony-making in old trees caves and such like other holes As for their breathing I do not beleeve it howbeit they may pant move or stirre as the heart or brain doth and by transpiration be comforted and made lively for they be much refreshed by the aire which passeth through their divided places insomuch that they alwayes use great diligence and care to preserve them from being stopped for as soon as they be stopped in those passages they die as we see if at any time they chance to fall into oyl or the like liquour which may stop their pores Some make three kings amongst them differing in colour as black red and divers-coloured but perhaps there is rather one king in a companie the other like kings may be esteemed as viceroyes In their breeding they actually couple together after which they lay egs sitting upon them for the space of five and fourtie dayes then do they hatch their young ones which at the first come forth much like to white worms except the king who onely is said to be hatched with wings And sometimes there is a kinde of Bee bred out of putrefaction as authours write A rotten horse breedeth Wasps a dead calf Bees if the West winde blow from an asse proceed Humble-bees of a mule Hornets c. And whether the Bees in Sampsons dead Lion were bred any where else no man knoweth They have a Commonweal and are governed by a king as before was mentioned and him they reverence and honour being alwayes readie to do according to his pleasure He is of bodie farre bigger then the hony Bees hath shorter wings but a brighter and more goodly head then they There is alwayes excellent discipline and very good government among them for at the mouthes of the hives there be some which stand like warders placed at the gates of a castle to see who goes in and out And having rested quietly all night there is one which with a humming noise doth call them up whereupon they prepare to fly abroad about their businesse but if they make no haste to look out or go not farre from home it is a certain signe of no good weather When they be busie at their work the Bees which go abroad return home with laden thighs full of the substance of the flowers and this especially is said to be an office of the younger Bees for some of the other do onely earrie water and the elder ones remaining at home do busily lay up carefully dispose and curiously dresse what the other bring in Such as be sluggish among them are diligently observed and bitterly punished and as for the drones they are supposed by some to be the female Bees which they drive out of their hives when breeding time is past and therefore they do ill who use to kill the drones before Others again think that the female Bee is no drone but rather bred among the Bees and being idle and unapt for work is driven away either in the busiest time or time of dearth And yet perhaps it may be the female which having done as much as can be naturally required from her must not think much to be driven away but leave her room to a succeding generation I said before that in the morning there is one among them which calls them up and so in like manner at night they leave their buzzing by degrees at last hearing as