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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

ioyned together and the common pibble stones that be found every where in the Earth among gravell and on the shore of the Sea or bancks of the Rivers These are generated of grosse and Earthly humours congealed by cold and because they be neither faire of colour nor thorow shining and also common they are contemptible The faire or beautifull stones be either great or small The great be as marble of divers kinds and colours alablaster and such like which being hard and well concocted may be polished and become beautifull Their colour is as they are mixed being uncongeled so is their purenesse The small are more precious and they be either thick or pellucide The thick be neither so faire nor so precious as the Achates the Tasper Prassios c. These consisting of a pure matter and not very watery are congealed into such stones The clear stones be liquore concrete as the Diamond the Saphir the Emerald c. they are praised for their greatnesse hardnesse clearnesse and faire colours of which enough hath bin spoken saving that some be of opinion that these be generated by heat becaus the best are found in hot countries in the East and in the South Answer may be made that the hotter the Air is the colder is the Earth so that reason is of small force Of the vertue of Stones SOme perchance would looke that we should make a long discourse of the vertue of stones and would be well content that we should treat of divers properties of gemmes and precious stones which matter though it be out of our purpose which considereth only the generation yet seeing it is not out of their expectation some thing briefly and yet sufficiently shall be said of the vertue of stones That vertue that is ascribed unto them is either Natural or Magical Naturall vertue is either that which is known to have a natural cause or a natural effect as the Magnes or Loadstone to draw Iron which is by a simitude of nature such an appetite as is between the Male and the Female Also the said Magnes moveth toward the North and as some say there is another kind found in the South that draweth toward the South They say that there are great hils of this stone in the North and South which maketh it look that way Others bring a Mathematicall reason which because it is more curious then can be understood of the common sort not exercised in Geometry I omit The Jet and Amber draw hairs chaffe and like light matter but being before chafed for heat is attractive Also the precious Stone called Astroites moveth it self in Vinegar the sharpnesse of the Vineger peircing it and the aire excluded driving it forward These vertues because I have seen I have set for an example generally all other like naturall vertues proceed of like naturall causes which by their effect the ingenious must seek to find out As for Magical Vertues they be they which are grounded on no reason or natural cause which if they take effect it is rather of the superstition and credulity of him that useth them then of the vertue of the stones As that an Emerald encreaseth love a Saphir favour a Diamond strength and such like vertues of which Alberius in his Age surnamed the Great took paines to write a Book which I suppose to be Englished To conclude with the cause why Stones melt not as Metalls do may be gathered by that which hath been said before because they are congealed past that degree and also because there is left in them no unctuous or clammy matter Let this suffice for Stones and and so the whole purpose is at an end OBSERVATIONS On Dr. F. his BOOKE OF Meteors By F. W. LONDON Printed for William Leake at the Crown in Fleet-street CHAP. I. Of the Earth IT is a great Question amongst Philosophers Whether the External and Visible Riches and Plenty which groweth and springeth on the face of the Earth or the Internal and Hidden Treasure be more precious and valuable Flowers and Fruits Corn and Cattel and all other external terrestrial Births are of most rare and exquisite use for mankind but the Earth is an Element not only beautified without but most richly stored within with great Varieties of admirable Creatures both pleasant rare and profitable for humane Content and Conservation From this very Consideration the Philosophers of Old reckoned and esteemed the Earth as the first and most antient of all the Gods and so stiled her The Grandmother or Mother of all the Gods And the Heashens did not only honor the Earth as a Mother but did adore her as a Goddess giving her the names of Ops Cibele Rhea Proserpina Vesta Ceres and other Appellations to signify the diversities and several effects and vertues which she produced The Earth was called Ops which signifyeth Aid because she affordeth aid and comfort to all Creatures inhabitant on her And Pausanias reports that neer the River Crasside in Greece there stood a little Temple dedicated to the Earth wherein she was adored Dea largi pectoris as the Goddess of the open and large brest freely feeding all her Children which in numerous companies were ranged by her Her Robe was rich aud glorious embroidered with the most pleasant flowers of all colours and she was adorn'd with a Mantle of Tissue whose ground was a beautifull Green signifying her great Plenty of all things wherewith Man-kind might be affected as most valuable and precious and such are her rich Mines of Gold Silver Copper Brasse and Iron or yet more highly priz'd Commodities as precious Stones and rare rich Gems of all kinds CHAP. 2. Of Metalls THe visible beauty of the Earth is obvious to every eye which is not the subject here in hand Her abstruse and hidden riches Preciosa periculaterrae as Boetius calls them her precious Metalls and Mines which force men to be so bold and ingenious are the matter of this Discourse These Aristotle calls Corpora perfectè mixta inanimate bodies of compleat mixture made up of Sulphur and Quick-silver the veines of the Earth being composed of a fit temper for such production Some Philosophers make the 〈◊〉 of Metallum from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a change effected in the Subterranean Veines with long labour and much difficulty Some Naturalists are more short and seem more plain affirming That Metalls is that which is plyable by the hammer and hard Stones are hard but not plyable and Wax and Mud are plyable but not hard CHAP. 3. Of the number of Metalls MEtalls are seven in number as the Planets are Gold Silver Amber Iron Lead Brasse Copper Gold presenteth the Sun Silver the Moon Amber called Electrum Mercury Iron Mars Lead Saturn Brasse Venus and Copper Jupiter or else the seven may be distinguished thus All Metall is perfect soft and pure as Gold or it is pure and hard as Silver or