A rational account of the weather, [electronic resource] : shewing the signs of its several changes and alterations, together with the philosophical reasons of them. Collected not only from the common observations, but chiefly from some of the most approv'd authors, the most celebrated Philosophers, and the most judicious Naturalists of this and former Ages, as Dr. Halley, Dr. Mead, Dr. Woodward, Dr. Lister, Dr. Grew, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Dryden, Mr. Derham, Mr. Morton, Mr. Handley, Dr. Connor, Lord Bacon, Mr. Boyle, Mr. Ray, Dr. Wallis, Dr. Plot, Mons. Ozanam, Mons. Paseal, Seigneur Malpigius, Gassendus, Bartholin, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Pliny, Aratus, Virgil, Horace, Lucan, Seneca, and Varro. By John Pointer, M. A. Chaplain of Merton College in Oxford, and Rector of Slapton in Northampton-Shire.