The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.

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The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.
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Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555.
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[Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete nere to S. Dunstons church by Thomas Marshe,
[1558?]]
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Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Ephemerides -- Early works to 1800.
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"The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00750.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.

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To know ye true place, & mouemēt of ye lightes & planets, at euery howre that a mā please: whether it be, afore or af∣ter noone. The. 8. Rule. (Book 8)

ANd if it be cōueniēt to haue ye true place of the sunne or of the moone or of any planet, at what howre so euer it be, either before none or after, you shal take his true place & mouement aun¦swering vnto the nonetide past, and also the same of ye nonetide folowing, as hath ben said before. After you shal substra the

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mouemente from the greatest: and that whiche doth remayne shalbe the moue∣ment of the sayd plan••••e answering vn∣to the same natural daye, frō one noone tide to the other, the whyche mouement you shall deuide by▪ 24. in resoluinge the degrees into minutes, and the minutes into secondes, if there be nede, then thou shalt adde so manye times the. 24. parte of the sayd dayly mouemēt vnto the mo∣uement of the nonetide past, as there be howers past since the same nonetide, yf the planet be direct. Or els you shal sub∣stra the same. 24. parte so many times if he be retrograde, & if you haue one quar¦ter, one third, or halfe of an houre more: you maye likewise adde or substraye the fourth, or the thirde, or the halfe of the a∣boue sayd. 24. parte of the sayd dayly mo¦uemēt and by this meane you shal haue that which you demaund.

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