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 April 28, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• ¶ To the louynge Reader.
• ¶ The Table of the Ru∣les and generall thinges conteyned in this volume.
• ¶ Of thynges conteyned at the begyn∣nyng and entring of the Ephemerides The first Rule, or Canon.
• Of the Eclipes of the sunne and mone second Rule.
• For to knowe the quantitie of the said eclipses. 3. Rule.
  • Example.
• Of the directions and retrogradaciōs of the. 5. planets the. 4.
• ¶ Of the true mouementes of the ligh∣tes and the planetes and other thin∣ges conteyned in the lefte face of the sayde Ephemerides. 5. rule.
• Of the equallitie, and vnequallitie of the naturall daies. the. 6.
• The manner too bringe the true place and mouemente of the moone, vnto the true noonetide. The. 7.
• 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.
• ¶ For to bringe the true mouement of the moone vnto what meridiane you please. 9. rule.
• Of the latitude of the. 5. planetes. ♄. ♃. ♂. ♀. and. ☿.
• Of the Latytude of the moone. the. 11.
• Of the aspectes of the moone vnto the sunne and planetes, & other thinges conteyned in the righte and seconde face of the saide Ephemerides the. 12. rule.
• Howe the newe and full mones, and eclypses, maye be reduced vnto what meridiane you will, differynge from the same of the Ephemerides▪ The. 13.
• Of the aspectes of the sunne vnto the planettes, and of the planettes a∣monge theim selues, and of the dra¦gon of the moone. The. 14.
• ¶ When the planets are oriental or oc∣cidental. 15. rule.
• For to knowe the quantitie of the arti¦ficial daye and of the nighte, and at what houre the sunne rysethe and setteth. 16. rule
• ¶ Of the, 12. houses of heauen, and of their nature accidentall accordinge vnto the iudgement of the astrologi¦ans. 17. rule.
• ¶ Howe to erecte and distyngue the. 12. houses of heauen, after the order of the sayd Ephemerides. 18. rule
  • ¶ The firste parte or difference, when the time is precisely at noone
    • ¶ The maner how to proportionate the sayde houses when the true place of the sunne hath minutes.
  • ¶ The seconde parte or difference, when the time proposed is after none.
  • ¶ The thirde parte or difference when the time proposed is before none.
    • ¶ Of the sixe houses occidentals, oppo∣sites, or contrarye vnto the sixe goinge before.
• ¶ Of the nature and complexion of the lightes, and of the .v. planetes. The .xx. rule.
• Of the force and accidentall nature of the aspectes. The. 21. ule.
• ¶ A declaration of the table of the fixed sterres whiche is in the Ephemerides. The. 22. rule.
• Of the 28 mansions or abidinge places of the mone. The 23. rule.
  • ¶ Heare foloweth the nature and qualitie of the 28 mansions of the mone, with the elections depending of the same.
• ¶ A declaration of the table whiche is before the Ephemerides, touching the force, dignitie, exaltation, and other termes or boun∣des of the Planetes in euery of the 12 si∣gnes. 24 rule.
• ¶ Generall and perticuler rules, for to iudge of the mutation and chaunge of the ayre. The 25 rule.
  • ¶ Perticuler rules of the aspectes of the planetes amonge them selues.
  • ¶ Perticuler rules by the aspectes of the mone with the planetes.
  • ¶ Other rules, and generall doctrines, for to knowe better and more surelye to iudge of the varietie of the time and weather, of the alteration of the ayre by the coniunctions, quadratures, & opposi∣tions of the sunne and of the mone.
• ¶ Of the aspectes and constellations which must be obserued and chosen for to beginne and ende happelye all workes and humayne businesse. The .xxvii. rule.
• ¶ Of elections which are to be obserued in the plylebotomie or lettinge of bloud. The. 28. rule.
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• ¶ Of elections for to sowe, and to plant trees and vines. The .xxx. rule.
• ✴ Here folovveth a singular treatise of Astrologie touching the con∣iunctions of the planettes in euery of the twelue signes, and of theyr Prognostications in the reuolutions of yeares.
  • ¶ Of the significations of the planetes in euerye of the sayde signes and houses.
  • Of the signification of the coniun∣tion of the planets in the signe of Aries.
  • Of the signification of the coniunction of the planets in the signe of Taurus.
  • ¶ Of the signification of the cōiunction of the planetes in Gemini.
  • ¶ Of the signification of the cōiunction of the planetes in Cancer.
  • Of the coniunctiō of the planets in Leo.
  • ¶ Of the significatiō of the coniunction of the planets in Uirgo.
  • ¶ Of the signification of the coniunctiō of the planets in Libra.
  • ¶ Of the signification of the coniunctiō of the planetes in Scorpius.
  • ¶ Of the signification of the cōiunction of the planets in Sagittarius.
  • Of the signification of the coniunction of ye planets in the signe of capriconus.
  • Of the signification of the coniunction of the planets in the signe of Aquarius.
  • Of the signification of the coniūction of the planets in the signe of Pisces.
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