The complete weather guide; a collection of practical observations for prognosticating the weather, drawn from plants, animals, inanimate bodies, and also by means of philosophical instruments; including the Shepherd of Banbury' rules, explained on philosophical principles. With an appendix of miscellaneous observations on meteorology, a curious botanical clock, &c. &c. &c / By Joseph Taylor.

  • Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844
Date:
1812
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The complete weather guide; a collection of practical observations for prognosticating the weather, drawn from plants, animals, inanimate bodies, and also by means of philosophical instruments; including the Shepherd of Banbury' rules, explained on philosophical principles. With an appendix of miscellaneous observations on meteorology, a curious botanical clock, &c. &c. &c / By Joseph Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Tue phenomena of the weather have, at all times, attracted much of the attention of man. kind ; because their subsistence and their com. fort in a great measure depended on them. It was not, however, until the seventeenth century, that any considerable progress was made in in. vestigating the laws of meteorology ;—a subject, of all others, the most interesting to farmers, and © to the agricultural interest in general. Since that time, philosophers have been enabled to make numerous and accurate meteorological ob- servations ; which have been collected from time B