Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.

Title

Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.

Author

Rothmann, Johann.

Publication

London :: Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angell in Corne-Hill,

1652.

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Subject terms

Palmistry -- Early works to 1800.

Astrology -- Early works to 1800.

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"Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91999.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE TRVLY NOBLE AND Universally LEARNED (My much Honoured Friend) ELIAL ASHMOLE Esquire.
• M Manilius in his Preface to Aug. Caesar.

• Iobi 37. 7.

  Qui in manu omnium hominum signa osu∣it, vt cognoscerent opera ejus singuli.

  • 1. LINES.
    • The Principall Lines.
    • The lesse Principall Lines,
  • 2. TUBERCULA.
  • 3. FERIENS.
  • 4. CAVEA.
  • 5. MENSA.
  • VERSUS.
    • QUESTION. Whether we must judge by the Right-Hand, or the Left?
    • ANSWER.
  • I. Of the Line of Life.
  • II. Of the Epatica, or Naturall-mean.
  • III. Of the Cephalica.
  • IV. Of the Thorall Line.
  • V. Of the Cauda Draconis, or the Restricta, and the Lines arising thence.
  • VI. Of the Via Solis, or the Sunn's Way.
  • VII. Of the Via Lactea, or the Milkie-way.
  • VIII. Of the Saturnia, or Line of Saturne.
  • IX. Of the Cingulum Veneris, or the Girdle of Venus.
  • X. Of the Via Martis, the way, or Line of Mars, or the Vitall-sister.
    • Two Observations concerning Lines.
    • Of the Planets.
  • XI. VENƲS.
  • XII. MARS.
  • XIII. JƲPITER.
  • XIIII. SATƲRNE.
  • XV. SOL.
  • XVI. LƲNA.
  • XVII. MERCƲRY.
  • XVIII. The Mensa, or Place of Fortune.
  • XIX. The Pollex, or Thumbe.
  • XX. The Index or Fore-finger.
  • XXI. Medius, or the Midle-Finger.
  • XXII. Annularis, or the Ring-finger.
  • XXIII. Auricularis, or the Litle-finger.
    • Two Observations, touching the Mounts and Fingers.
  • The Speciall Practice of Chi∣romancy, and its Genethliacall Concordancy, in 19. Examples.
    • Example I.
    • Example II.
    • Example III.
    • Example IV.
    • Example V.
      • Another Borne in Thuringia, in the yeare of Christ, 1585. Iune 26. halfe an houre before noone.
    • Example VI.
    • Example VII.
    • Example VIII.
    • Example IX.
    • Example X.
    • Example XI.
    • Example XII.
    • Example XIII.
    • Example XIV.
    • Example XV.
    • Example XVI.
    • Example XVII.
    • Example XVIII.
    • Example XIX.
      • We will now consider the Signes of the Foure Angles.
      • The Planets in the Houses of Heaven.
      • The Planets in the Signes.
      • The Lords of the Houses.
      • Generall Elections.
• A Speciall Judgement of this Ge∣niture, giving you the Directions of the Principall Places, and their Significations.
• Judgements upon the Precedent Directions.
  • QUESTION. Whether you shall escape this Disease?
• A Briefe DISCOURSE OF The Soule of the VVORLD, AND The Universall Spirit thereof.
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