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Marie Richards at Jun 23, 2022 02:08 PM

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deau si en naist ung grant son ou quant len y estaint
charbons. mais lesclistre du tonnoirre appert ainchois
que vous en oyes la voix pour che que le veoir del homme
est plus soubtil que nest la oye. Sicomme quant len voit
de loings oultre une eaue battre draps ou ferir de marteaulx
len voit ainchois couchier les cops de ceulx qui fierent ar
riere que len y oye le son du cop. Tout pareillement vous
puis je dire du tonnoirre que len voit avant que len lait
ouy. Et de tant comme il est plus ensus de nous de tant
seslonge plus le son de lespart. depuis que len la veu ain
chois que len oye sa vertu. Et dautant que plus tost est
ouy apres lespart tant est le tonnoire plus pres.
DEs Pour savoir comment les vents naissent
vents poeut len enguerre raison par les
mers. Et environ la terre courent sou
vent et sencontrent en aulcun lieu tant asprement
que ilz seslievent contre mont si que ilz deboutent lair
en hault et lair qui est doubte par force et oste de son
lieu remoeut laultre air en telle fachon quil retour
ne aussi comme arriere et sen va bruiant et oudoiant
comme une eaue courant. Car vent nest aultre cho


Translation

83

causes a very great sound, or when one extinguishes
hot coals. But the lightning that comes from the thunder
appears first and then you hear the sound, because the
sight of men is more keen than their hearing. So it is when
one sees across the water cloth being beaten or a hammer
striking, one first sees the blow landed by the one doing it,
and then one hears the sound of the blow. In the same way
I can tell you that it is thunder that one sees before
one has heard it. And since it is so far above us, so much
greater is the gap between the sound and the flash, and after
one has seen it, then one hears its force. But the faster
one hears the sound after the flash, the closer the thunder is.
[rubric:] In order to know how winds come to be.
One can understand the winds by considering the seas.
For they blow often all around the earth
and collide with each other in some places so fiercely
that they rise along the sides of a mountain such that they
force themselves into the air above it and the air that is
forced out from that place pushes other air
in such a way that it returns rearward, roaring and undulating
like flowing water. For wind is nothing other than

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Lxxxiii

d'eau si en naist ung grant son ou quant l'en y estaint
charbons. mais l'esclistre du tonnoirre appert ainchois
que vous en oyes la voix pour che que le veoir del homme
est plus soubtil que n'est la oye. Sicomme quant l'en voit
de loings oultre une eaue battre draps ou ferir de marteaulx
l'en voit ainchois couchier les cops de ceulx qui fierent ar-
riere que l'en y oye le son du cop. Tout pareillement vous
puis je dire du tonnoirre que l'en voit avant que l'en l'ait
ouy. Et de tant comme il est plus ensus de nous de tant
s'eslonge plus le son de l'espart. depuis que l'en la veu ain-
chois que l'en oye sa vertu. Et d'autant que plus tost est
ouy apres lespart tant est le tonnoire plus pres.
DEs Pour savoir comment les vents naissent
vents poeut l'en enguerre raison par les
mers. Et environ la terre courent sou-
vent et s'encontrent en aulcun lieu tant asprement
que ilz s'eslievent contre mont si que ilz deboutent l'air
en hault et l'air qui est doubte par force et oste de son
lieu remoeut l'aultre air en telle fachon qu'il retour-
ne aussi comme arriere et s'en va bruiant et oudoiant
comme une eaue courant. Car vent n'est aultre cho-


Translation

83

causes a very great sound, or when one extinguishes
hot coals. But the lightning that comes from the thunder
appears first and then you hear the sound, because the
sight of men is more keen than their hearing. So it is when
one sees across the water cloth being beaten or a hammer
striking, one first sees the blow landed by the one doing it,
and then one hears the sound of the blow. In the same way
I can tell you that it is thunder that one sees before
one has heard it. And since it is so far above us, so much
greater is the gap between the sound and the flash, and after
one has seen it, then one hears its force. But the faster
one hears the sound after the flash, the closer the thunder is.
[rubric:] In order to know how winds come to be.
One can understand the winds by considering the seas.
For they blow often all around the earth
and collide with each other in some places so fiercely
that they rise along the sides of a mountain such that they
force themselves into the air above it and the air that is
forced out from that place pushes other air
in such a way that it returns rearward, roaring and undulating
like flowing water. For wind is nothing other than