180 CALOR ET FRIGUS. 



The sun-beams tanneth the skin of man ; and in 

 some places turneth it to black. 



The sun-beams are hardly endured by many, but 

 cause headach, faintness, and with many they cause 

 rheums, yet to aged men they are comfortable. 



The sun causes pestilences which with us rage about 

 autumn, but it is reported in Barbary they break up 

 about June and rage most in the winter. 



The heat of the sun and of fire and living creatures 

 agree in some things which pertain to vivification ; as 

 the back of a chimney will set forward an apricock- 

 tree as well as the sun ; the fire will raise a dead but- 

 terfly as well as the sun and so will the heat of a living 

 creature ; the heat of the sun in sand will hatch an 

 egg: qu. 



The heat of the sun in the hottest countries nothing 

 so violent as that of fire, no not scarcely so hot to the 

 sense as that of a living creature. 



The sun a fountain of light as well as heat. The 

 other celestial bodies manifest in light, and yet non 

 constat whether all borrowed as in the moon, 1 but ob- 

 scure in heat. 



The southern and western wind with us is the 

 est, whereof the one bloweth from the sun the other 

 from the sea, the northern and eastern the more cold ; 

 qu. whether in the coast of Florida or at Brasil the 

 east wind be not the warmest and the west the coldest, 

 and so beyond the antarctic tropic the southern wind 

 the coldest. 



The air useth to be extreme hot before thunders. 



The sea and air ambient appeareth to be hotter 



1 The words and yet .... moon are interlined in the MS. 



