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Summary

Title page of "Der Wunder=reiche Überzug unserer Nider-Welt ..." by Erasmus/Erasmum Francisci (also: Erasmus von Finx), 1627-1680. Published in 1680 in Nuremberg, Germany (German language).

Original title

Der Wunder=reiche
Überzug
unserer
Nider=Welt /
Oder
Erd=umgebende
Lufft= Kreys/
Nach seinen natürlichen Wesen / manchfaltigen Ei=
genschaften / Nutzen/ und Würckungen / natür= und unnatür=
lichen / feuer= und wässerigen Erscheinungen / (als da sind die Wasser=
Sonnen/ Regenbögen/ Nacht= und Meeer-Lichter/ u. Lufft=Wunder/ Wolcken/
Regen / Schee / Wind= und Schiff=brechende Stürme / Donner= und Blitz=
Stralen/) in unterschiedlichen Discursen abgehandelt /dazu mit vielen merck=
würdigen Exempeln / und Geschichten erklärt;
Nebst
einer vorhergehenden
Luſtigen Spatzier= und Tisch=Unterredung/⁊c.
Und
einem / vor dißmal kurtzem/
Anhange / von der Welt=Ort und Lauffe / oder Still=
stande der Lufftauffangenden Erd=Kugel:
Zu Ausbreitung Göttlicher Allmacht/und Erlußtigung deß
curiösen Lesers /erörtert/ und beschrieben/
durch
Erasinum Francisi.

[...]

Secondary source

NOAA Central Library, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), Silver Spring, MD, USA

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/library/libr0329.htm

Library call number QC859 .F72 1680.

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