Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,078	5	10.3751	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85928	The second lecture being an introduction to cosmographie: read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. On Bednall Greene.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing G569; Thomason E584_5; ESTC R202283	9,905	22

Providence of him that made them they likewise daily manifest and Praise him as the Royall Prophet sayes in the 19 Psa. Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei opera manuum ejus annuntiat Firmamentum that is The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handyworks Of the Heavens or severall Orbes distances THe Astronomers in their measuring the height of the severall Orbes or Heavens doe make use of the Earths halfe diameter the halfe Diameter is of twelve hundred Leagues or thereabouts and infer thus that the Heaven of the Moon is distant three and thirty halfe Diameters from the Center of the Earth which makes nine and thirty thousand and six hundred Leagues Mars one thousand eight hundred and two and fifty halfe Diameters Jupiter Seven thousand eight hundred two fifty Saturne Fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy three The Firmament two and twenty thousand six hundred and twelve halfe Diameters which are seven and twenty Millions one hundred foure and thirty Thousand and foure Hundred Leagues These leagues are Geometricall leagues which containe three thousand paces which is so vast an extent that if our first father Adam were yet alive and that from his Creation he had ascended every day eighteen Leagues towards the Heavens yet for the present he would not have attained to the concavity of the eight Heaven and thus much more I may say for to represent how far distant the Starres are from us That if a Cannon bullet were in that place where the Starres are and that it should descend each hour two hundred leagues yet would it remaine more then 15 yeares before it could arrive to the Earth Now by the distance of the Heavens as beforesaid can be knowne the thicknesse of each Orbe or Heaven and that by substracting the lesser distance from the greater following As for Example if three and thirty halfe diameters be substracted from threescore and foure halfe Diameters the remainder will be one and thirty halfe diameters and of so many halfe Diameters is the solidity of the Moones Heaven or Orbe and in the like manner you may find out the others Of the Elementary Region THe Elementary Region is the concavity of the Moones Heaven or Orbe the which is filled with the four Elements Fire Aire Water and Earth An Element is a simple Body the which cannot be divided nor seperated into different formes that there are foure Elements is easily proved since there is nothing so naturall as that the things do dissolve into the same parts of the which they are composed All perfect mixt Bodies ca 〈…〉 into Earth Water Aire and into Fire there 〈…〉 both earth water aire and fire the which 〈…〉 manifestly shews for when a green St 〈…〉 of it is seen dissolved into Fire part into 〈…〉 which is of the nature of Aire part into scumme which is of the nature of water and part of it into ashes which are of the nature of the Earth and consequently all oother mixt Bodies as Stones Mettalls Plants Animalls c. That they are just foure is also proved by the four humours which are observed to be in the severall bodies of Animalls as the gall which answers to the fire the Blood which answers to the Aire the Fleame which answers to the Water and the Melancholy humour which answers to the Earth The Fire possesses the highest place of the Elementary Region as the most purest and the lightest The Aire is next unto the Element of the Fire as being purer and lighter then the Water and Earth The Water is under the Aire and above the Earth and the Earth as heaviest is the Lowermost and the Center to all the world Of the Fire THe Fire is an Element extreame hot and moderately dry Since each Element hath its proper and naturall place Reason wills that the fire should have his Now since its the purest and the lightest of all the Elements its naturall place must then bee in the nearest space unto the concavity of the Moone wee doe also see that all the Fires lighted here beneath tend naturally upwards and are corrupted by the Aire which invirons them which clearly shews that the naturall place of this Element is above the Aire We cannot see it in its naturall place because it hath no colour and it does not inflame the Heaven because the Heaven is not susceptible of any heat nor of any other alteration The Element of the Fire containes about forty thousand leagues of depth from its superficiall concavity to its convexe Of the Aire THE Aire is an Element very moist and moderately hot Its naturall place is the superficiall concavity of the Element of the Fire and the superficiall convexe of the Element of Water But the Water and the Earth making but one Globe as wee shall shew hereafter the place of the Aire is all the space there remaines betwixt the Earth and the elementary Fire which space hath thirty leagues of height The Aire is divided into three Regions the highest middlemost and lowermost The highest Region of the Aire is hot and dry by reason of the proximity of the elementary Fire and of the motions of the Heavens The middlemost is cold and moist by reason of the vapors which are elevated by the vertue of the Sun which thickening and congealing do refresh the place where they are and this Region is yet colder by reason of the Antyperistasis that is to say by a contrary force which a contrary Element makes strengthening it selfe against a greater strength of a contrary Element The lowermost Region of the Aire is both hot cold and temperate according as the beames of the Sunne cast themselves perpendicularly or oblickly thereon Of the Water THE Water is an Element both extream cold and moderately moist The naturall place of the Water is betweene the Aire and the Earth so that the Earth ought to be environed and wholly incompassed by the Waters But God hath caused the Element of the Water to retire in the concavities of the Earth for the habitation and preservation both of Men and Animals in their being there is much to be alleadged that may contradict this passage but this seemes to be the most probably true that God hath ordained it by his absolute power as it is written in Genesis the first Chapter Congregentur aquae quae sub Coelo sunt in locum unum et appareat arida that is to say Let the waters under the Heaven be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appeare Of the Earth THE Earth is an Element both extream dry and moderately cold That the Earth is heavier then the Water is proved thus That which causes another to yeeld in heavinesse ought to be heavier then that other But the Earth causes the water to yeeld in heavines therfore it must needs follow that the Earth is heavier then the Water this is proved thus when any Earth or a Stone is cast into a