A Prognostication of Right Good Effect: Fructfully Augmented Contayninge Playne, Briefe, Pleasant, Chosen Rules, to Iudge the Wether for Euer, by the Sunne, Moone, Sterres, Cometes, Raynbowe, Thunder, Cloudes

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Página iii - Tables : for euer manyfolde wayes profitable, to al maner men of vnderstanding : therfore agayne publisshed by Leonard Dygges Gentylman, in the yeare of oure Lorde, 1555. Imprynted at London, within the blacke Fryars, by Thomas Gemini, 1555.
Página 32 - Or thunder is an exhalation, hot and dry, mixt with moisture carved vp to the middle Region, there thicked and wrapped into a cloud, of this hotte matter coupled in moystnes, closed in the cloud, groweth a strife, the heate beatinge, and breaking out the sides of ye cloude wyth a thundringe noyse: the fyre then dispersed, is the...
Página 8 - If in the euening it shewe it self, fayr weather ensueth : so that aboundaunt moyste ayre take not awaye the effect. Or thus — "The rayne bowe appering, if it be fayr, it betokeneth fowle weather : if fowle, loke for fair weather. The grener, the moare raine : redder, wynde.
Página 29 - Digges, is a colde vapour, an erthy humour : or fumosities, out of waters or earth drawen vp by the vertue of the Sunne, to the nether part of the middle space of the ayre : there through colde thycked, then dissolued : thus engendered falleth on the earth.
Página 29 - Raynbowe is the shynyng, and rebounding of beamys of light, that tourne to the contrarie vapour agayne, in the cloude. It declareth sometyme rayne, and many tymes fayre wether: when the one, and how the other, is before opened.
Página 7 - Also when grosse, thicke, darke clowdes, right ouer the northe part, or somwhat declining to the west, ar close with the earth, immediatly folowyth rayne. If they appeare lyke hylles, somedeale from the earth, a good token of weather ouerpassed. Blacke clowdes, signifie rayne: white clowdes apperyng in wynter, at the Horizon, two or thre dayes together, prognosticate colde, and snowe.

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