- Above Great Britain and northern France, a flamboyant thing in the shape of a globe is seen in the sky. Its size is immense and from this ball of fire two beams come out, one that goes further than France, and the other that goes towards Ireland, and ends in fire, like beams. [\[Conrad Wolffart, known as Lycosthenes, professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, since 1539\]]{.source}