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A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

in a right line she is opposed to ☉ at 14 dayes or full Moone Although she finish her couse in the foresaid time in the circle of the Zodiack yet is allowed to euery Moone 29 and a halfe day because she is to passe forward 2 dayes 4 howers before shee can ouertake the ☉ which maketh 29 dayes 12 houres And in 9 yeare she endeth all her diuersity of coniunctions and aspectes and a new begineth her former reuolution c. A Commet is a wandering star of diuers motions shining in the region of the Plannets this appeareth seldome sometime aboue and some times below the the Plannets It foretelleth greeuous accidentes Others say that a Commet is a fat substance drawne by the heate of the sun from the earth and the heate of the highest region of the Ayre is set on fire appearing like a starre and is sometime moued in the ayre It foreshewth war Pestilence drought and barrennes of the earth The light of some Plannets sometime fayle especially of ☉ and ☽ The defects happen in the Zodiack if these 2. starres be in the knotts of their circles or neare to them which knotts are cuttings made by the course of the ☉ and ☽ and is called the dragon The higher is called Dragons head the lower the Dragons tayle The Ascendant or higher is where ☽ departing from the middle Zodiack doth come nearest vnto vs. The descendant when the ☽ is remouing from vs. The Eclipse of those starres is in whole or part In whole all being obscured as in the midst of them In part it happenth neare one of the knotts The Eclipse of ☉ is by comming of ☽ betweene our eyes and the ☉ in the coniunction of both Plannets A great Eclipse of ☉ is when the centure of these starres proceed in a direct line to our eye The Eclipse of ☽ is the depriuing her of the light of ☉ in the opposition the earth shadowing her comming in a straight line betweene them her Eclipse is sooner seene in the East then in the West Elements are simple essences lesse durable then the heauens and are the wombs of mixed things c. Of the Elements 2. are cleare ayre and water Ayre which is cold and moyst and of these there are described 3. regions the first is hot dry this is termed the fiery which causeth it to be called an Element Ayre the flame being but inflamed ayre the midle region colder and darker the third region in which we liue is hott or cold by the more or lesse reflection of the sunne beames Ayre is so needefull to creatures that none can liue without it the thinner the better and more healthfull Water is an element lesse thin and cleare moyst and most cold Water warmed in channells in the earth causeth hot springs this is heated by running by some hott mineralls and helpeth moyst cold bodies Water is greater or lesse The greatest is the Sea which is salt because of the starres drawe forth the thin substance leauing the earth behinde The Ocean ebbeth and floweth after the ☽ motion and from the new moone to the full humors increase after decrease and the tides are knowne by the Moone Particular Seas take their name of some country or of some accident as the red Sea c. Water are in flouds or fountaines fountaines are best which come of Mountaines or Rocks c. Waters is of diuers cullours and tastes Milky Greene Red Salt sharpe bitter and like wine The earth is a thick element cold and dry and is vnmoueable about which all things moue it is round and althings tend as neare the centure as they can It is in compasse with the water 21600. miles and is but as a point to the whole world Concreat and mixte bodyes or natures are essences mixed of parts seuerally disposed For from sundry things of diuers formes one forme may be formed and things of one mixture according to the diuers affection of their elements are diuersly affected As some are Ayery some Fiery and some Earthly But the proportion maketh temperature which is a proportion of qualities cleauing togeather in mixture it is equall or vneuen is either simple or compound simple is in act or power compound as heate with drinesse c. Mixed natures are either liuelesse or liuing Liuelesse as meteors which are a hot smoake lifted vp by the attractiue force of starres some 15. German miles into the ayre and no higher this smoake is a vapour or exhalation A vapour is a moist smoake drawn from water and is easily resolued into water Exhalation is a dry smoake drawne from the earth easie to fire from exhalatiō arise fiery impressions which burne like fire as pillers dartes candles goates shooting starres fiery Dragons darke streames fooles fire and such like fiery meteors Mixed fiery meteors whose exhalation is somewhat vnpure thicker and long her mixture is thunder which is a fiery exhalation breaking forth of the cloudes with a sound Lightening small and great is a flaming light of a burning exhalation shining before thunder Though we heare not the thunder it is at the present breaking out of the flash the eye being quicker then the eare The great lightening is thicker and burneth more if it be hardened with heate of the suune and it selfe it maketh a stone which is cast out at the cracke this doth much harme Lightening is thick or thin this boreth through without leauing any signe of it The thicker scorcheth and burneth it hath much earthy matter setting on fier steeples and such like and in great flashes is but some small deale of this earthy matter else all things would be fired Watery meteors are vapors more fully compact together and appeare in the lowest part or midst of the Ayre as cloudes and such like A cloude is a vapour ioyned together by the extreame cold of the midle region Cloudes hang in the Ayre by the sunnes heat which draweth them vp and by the mouing of the windes are tossed vp and downe In these Cloudes by ☉ and ☽ are framed diuers shapes hauing no proper matter but onely appeare in the cloudes either about ☉ and ☽ or opposite to them as A false Sunne which is imprinted in the cloud by the reflection of his beames in a cloud being watrish so that sometime the shape of 2. or 3 sunnes are seene so of the moone Bright circles in the cloudes being black are from the reflecting beames seeming to compasse the ☉ or ☽ yet they are far lower These circles appeare more often about the moone shee being not able with her beames to consume these vapours The shape in the cloudes opposed to the Sunne is the raine-bow of diuers cullours in a hollow thin and in an vnequall cloud fashioned by reflection of the sunnes beames and the raine-bow is greater the nearer it commeth to the Horizon If many raine-bowes be seene the latter is made by the shining of the other and are more obscure then the

a slimy water mixt with a pure white earth which mettall for the matter whereof it doth consist is thin cold and heauie It is in continuall motion and his thinnesse causeth that it peirceth mettalls Mettalls deriued from the first are more or lesse pure purer are Gold and Siluer Gold is a mettall made of most subtill and pure red Brimstone and of the like quicksiluer Gold hath the most perfect mixture as it is most thin so it is most solide whose substance is not corrupted with either earth water or ayre nor consumed with fire but is more purged in it And for his thin solidnes it is most soft and easie to be melted So that is most worth which is most red and glistering and soft that easily it may be wrought Experience teacheth that the 3 part of one graine of gold can gild a wyre of 134. foote long vpon plaites of siluer one ounce of gold will suffice to gilde eight pound weight of siluer His nature is to be meruelled at It waxeth cold towards day light so that those that weare rings of it may perceiue it when it waxeth day It is found in the mountaines of Arabia and else where and the best in the mountaine Terrat neare the Citty Corbachiam Siluer is a mettall begotten of pure white Mercury and the like cleare white Brimston It differeth from gold almost onely in cullour it being gold not perfectly refined yet in purenesse firme solidenesse and thinnesse it is next to gold and one ounce of it may be drawne 3200. foote long so that it can scarce be discerned from gold Yet it is thicker an hundreth fould When it is found it hath the shape of haires twigs fishes serpents and such like Mettalls lesse pure consist of greater store of Brimston or quick-siluer of greater store of Brimston come Brasse and Iron Brasse is a mettall begotten of thicke red Brimston and Mercury somewhat impure that comming from Cyprus is called Copper the matter of Brasse is more burnt then that of other mettalls and indureth long and is fit in any worke For it is without all moisture whether it be kept in earth or water Mineralls neare brasse are copperas c. Copperas is a minerall mixed of humors strained by droppes into small holes and it shineth like glasse It is hot and dry in the 4 degree vehemently binding being of great force to season and preserue raw flesh It also begetteth found flesh in festered sores and stancheth blood It is of a greene yealow and a skye cullour the best hath in it white spots his kind are Romaine victriall and red vitriall or the some of Copperas Iron is of store of mercury and of thick sulphur impure and aduft It may bee softened by quenching in ioyse of beane shulls or mallowes It being red hot and cooling of himselfe becommeth plyable But if it be often quenched in cold water it becommeth thereby very hard and brittle Mettalls of greater stoore of Mercury are Leade and Tynne Leade is an vnpure mettall begot of much vnpure thicke and drossie Mercury and likewise of vnpure Brimstone his impurity causeth blacknes which by refining is made whiter It increaseth in waight if it lie in moyst ground Yea it is thought to increase with rayne It is of a cold and binding nature and therefore scarce wholsome for mans vse Tynne is a mettall mixed of Mercury white without and red within and of Brimstone not well mixed as it were Leade whited with siluer Thus far of mettalls pliable Mettalls lesse plyable are those which are not easily wrought or melted and are hard or Brittle Those that be altogeather hard are stones These are ingendred of a watry moysture and fat earth mixed hard togeather Of stones some be rare some common Of the rare and strange some are of more estimation then others The more esteemed are precious stones which are more beautifull and fine in regard of their pure and subtill matter Of Gemmes some are of one cullour some of sundry cullours More or lesse transparent be either white or of other cullours White are Chrystall or Adamant Chrystall is a gem bright through begot of a most pure stony moysture and is found in mines of Marble c. His qualitie is binding therefore his oyle or powder is helpefull in Laxes and increaseth milke in womens brests The Adamant or Diamant is a gem cleare and most hard it can scarce be broken and thence it is named vnlesse steeped in the warme bloud of a Goat that hath drunke Wine or eaten Parsly Transparent Gemmes not white as the Saphir Sardonix and Smaragde haue the same coullour in all their kindes The Saphir is a gem cleare through of a skie coullour growing in the East and specially in India Being drunke it helpeth against the stinging of Serpents poyson and pestilence The Smaragde is of a greene coullour making greene the ayre neare about it the stone of Brytaine is the best It preserueth the wearer from the falling sicknesse eyght graines of his shauing drunke expelleth poyson c as some affirme The Sardonyx is a cleare gem representing in coullour the nayle of a mans hand it preserueth chastnes and healeth vlcers about the nayles The Selenites is a transparent gem like glasse it seemeth to increase and decrease with the moone Whose shape in the night it beareth and is called therefore the Moone-stone c. It is of a white blacke and yellow coullour His scrapings heale the falling sicknesse Bright shining Gems doe follow The Carbuncle is a gem shining in the light like fire it is the noblest and hath most vertues of any precious stone The Calcedonian is of a purple coullour shining like a starre it expels sadnes and feare by purging and chearing the spirits It hindreth ill visions The Astarites is a Christaline stone hauing in the midst like a full moone Bright stones not shining doe follow or the lesse shining The Rubie is a red gem shining in darke like a sparke of fire it cleareth the sight it expelleth sad and fearefull dreames The Topaz is of the cullor of gold casting beames in the Sunne being layd to a wound it stancheth bloud or cast into hot water keepeth the hand from scalding The Hiacinth is of watrish coullour it is exceeding hard and cloudie in the darke but pure and cleare by day It is colde moderating the spirits of the heart and of the other parts and causing mirth which being worne obtaineth fauour Precious stones of lesse shining be Corrall Asbestos Magnes and Galacte Corrall is a stone growing in the Sea like a slimie shrub which by the ayre presently is made hard It is taken vp full of mosse but being vnbarked it appeareth cleare in his proper coullour The spongie Corrall is white and colde The solid is more stonie and is red and blacke Red and full of branches is the best which worne of one shortly to be sicke waxeth pale His tender substance is affected by the bad vapour which yet is

vnable in the bodie to afflict it It is good for sore eyes for the stone and falling sicknesse Asbestos is of an Iron coullour being once fired it cannot be quenched It is found in Arabia Magnes or Loadstone is of a skie coullour or an Iron coullour It draweth Iron It hath like vertue with the Adamant It purgeth the dropsie helpeth the flux respecteth the North and South poole Galactites is of an Ash coullour it seemeth to sweat as it were milke it increaseth milke and helpeth running of the eyes and vlcers Now follow stones of diuers coullours Achates is a stone of diuers coullours resembling a Lyons skin sometime it is blacke with white veynes and yellow sometime it is as it were sprinkled with bloud it is very variable in coullour Eagles lay it in their nests to preserue their young from poyson Turcois is darke of a skie coullour and greenish It helpeth weake eyes and spirits Corneolus is like water of washed flesh It helpeth against the Pyles in the fundament and to stop fluxes In a ring it restraineth anger Chrysoprasus is of a greene coullour with golden spots It shineth a little in the darke it is rare and deare It comforteth the heart helpeth dim sight c. Hematite is of an Iron coullour with bloudie vaynes It is cold and dry cooleth hot waters stancheth bloud and helpeth against the scorching of the Sunne as Authors write Also the qualities of other stones depend rather vpon authoritie then vpon proofe Stones be found in Beasts Birds and Fishes Stones found in Beasts bee 1. Chelidonius is a small stone in the belly of yong Swallowes It is found in those of the first hatching in the new moone if two be found the one is red the other blacke The best is of a sprinkled red The red in a linnen cloth carried vnder the left arme expelleth madnesse the falling sicknesse and getteth fauour say some 2. Alectorius is of a christall or watrish coullour It is found in the Maw of an olde Capon as big as a beane in one of nine yeere old small in one of fiue yeer olde This stone quencheth thirst being held in the mouth It maketh warlike and couragious 3. The Rubet or Toadstone groweth in the head of a Toad It is of a white browne coullour sometime it hath a skie coulloured eye in the middle It is to be taken before the Toad touch any Water It is a remedie against all poyson If it come neare poyson it changeth coullour and sweateth as it were drops In fishes are found stones which are made of the cold hardening their matter 4. The Crabs eye of the female is like an eye it dissolveth bloud congealed and expelleth stones 4. The Perch stone found in his head is white and as big as Hemp-seed 6. The Carpe stone found in his chap is trianguler white without yellow within It helpeth against aboundance of choller Thus far of precious stones These following are of price because of their beautie but not so rare Porphirite is a Marble shining like purple Alabaster is a marble like in coullour to spotted Honny At this day it is cleare and smooth like Plaster The Ophite is a most hard marble of a sad greene spotted and Serpent-like coullour Common stones are of vnpure slimie earth thicke and darke some be solid as the Flint Boulder the Whet-stone c. Some be full of poores as the Pumise Gravil-stones and Free-stone SAlt is a fryable mettall begotten of a watrish and earthie moysture mixt and decocted together It bindeth scowreth purgeth disperseth represseth maketh thin and hard It is gotten in pits or waters The sorts of digged salts be Salt Amoniack is found in plates vnder the hotte sands of Cyreniae It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and serueth to purge slimie humors That which Apothecaries sell in blacke clods is made of Camels stale and because store of Camels be in Armenia it is called Armeniack Salt Peter is found in dry places vnder the ground and in hollow Rockes It is sometime called Nitre of a Region in Egypt Of this kinde is the salt called Borax Salt Gem is a white kinde of Euen-salt shining like Christall It is also called Stonie marbly salt Sarmaticke or Dacian Salt of Indie is a blackish Salt or ruddy It is in clods cut out of mount Oremen Salt of Water is taken on the Sea coast or from some lakes and springs and it is sod and congealed of the Sunne or by fire Allome is a salt sweat of the earth it is either liquid or hard Liquid Allome is called Roch or Rock-Allome with it is paper washed c. Hard Allome or Allome Sciffile is thicke and cleaueth It is as it were gray Bitume is a fat and tough moysture like pitch and is called Earthy pitch Liquid is like an oylely moysture flowing and is of diuers coullours after the varietie of the place of which Naphtha is a white fat of Bitumen which enflamed by water doth easily draw to it fire through store of oyle that is in it Naphtha Petreolum is found in rockes It is for his fatnesse of some called Oyle Ambar of Arabia is Bitume of an Ash coullour Hard Bitume is tough like foame swimming on the water but being taken forth it waxeth hard of this kinde is Asphaltus which is blacke Bitume hard like stone pitch The best is gotten in the dead Sea of Iudea c. Pissaphaltus is Asphaltus smelling of Pitch mingled with Bitume It is called Mummie Where this wants they sell vs counterfeit of Syria for poore men that die there be stuffed with Bitume but the rich are dressed with Mirrh Alloes c. It also is found in clods roling from mount Cerauine into the Sea Succinum is Bitume like a stone exceeding hard named Ex succo the Iuyce of the earth It is white or yellow which is called Ambar or blacke as Iet His fatnesse is so great that it burneth like a Candle and smelleth like the Pine tree It draweth to it chaffe and such other light stuffe by a certaine hid nature Metallar Earths which are digged forth of mines be Terra Lemnia an exceeding red Earth of Lemnos I le digged in a red hill It is sometime vsed for Armenian· In old time this had Dianaes seale vpon it printed by her Priests who were onely wont to wash this earth It is of force to expell poyson it healeth wounds festred and olde and poysoned Bole Armenian is earth of Armenia it is of a pale red coullour smooth and easie to breake as chalke It is a dryer and profitteth against all fluxes Terra Samia is white stiffe and tough comming from the I le Samos Ampelite is a pitchie Earth cleauing and blacke it is named of anoynting vines to kill the Wormes This earth is like that we call Stone or Sea coale Chalke is white earth of Creet and there is found of it in many other places There is also some sound that is blacke which is called Pignitis