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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    .vw‘71 : INTRODUCTION. S we very juftly efleem it a fit Tri¬ bute of Admiration to adorn natural Curiofities, by betting them as richly and as advantageoufiy as art can dired:, fo the following Obfervations of the Shep¬ herd of Banbury have appeared to me worthy of being prefen ted to the Eye of the Public, with all the Luftre that it was in my Power to give them. It is one Thing to obferve, and another to reafon upon Obfervations, and it very rarely happens that both can be taken into the Compafs of one Man’s Life. We ought therefore to con¬ fide r it as a very lucky Incident, when the Obfer¬ vations of another Man upon whom we can de¬ pend fall into our Hands, and enable us to add natural Experience to the Notions deriv’d to us from Books of Philofophy, There is a degree of Pedantry in Defarts as well as Colleges. Men who derive their knowledge entirely from Experience, are apt to4defpife what B they