The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy / By John Claridge.

  • Claridge, John (Shepherd)
Date:
1744
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Credit: The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy / By John Claridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VII. MISTS, If they rife in low Ground' mid foon vanijh. ^J-Fair Weather. HIS is a fure Sign and very well expreflfed. that is clearly and in few Words which is the Excellency of fuch Aphorifms. In order to be convinced of its good Senfe and Certainty, we muft confider a little what Mifts are, whence they rife, and what becomes of them. Mifts are ftridly fpeaking uncompafted Exha¬ lations, which while they fleet near the Earth are ftiled Mifts, but when they afcend into the Air, are called Clouds. If therefore rifing out of low Ground, they are driven along the Plain, and are foon loft to the Sight, it muft arife from fome of thefe Caufes. That there is an Air abroad fufficient to divide and refolve them, or the Heat of the Sun has been ftrong enough to exhale them, that is to rarify them, fo as to render them light¬ er than the Air thro9 which they were to pafs. Which ever Way this happens the Maxim re¬ mains unimpeach’d.