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CHAP. VI.
The names of the Planets, their characters, together with the twelve signes of the zodiake, their dispositions, aspects, and go∣vernment, with other observations.
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Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.
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- Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire.
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- Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599.
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"Scot's Discovery of vvitchcraft proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars ... to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also, the lewde unchristian all written and published in anno 1584, by Reginald Scot, Esquire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62395.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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The disposition of the Planets.
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The aspects of the Planets.
- * 1.1 ☌ Is the best aspect, with good planets, and the worst with evill.
- ✶ Is a meane aspect in goodnese or badnesse.
- △ Is very good in aspect to good planets, and h••rteth not in evill.
- □ This aspect is of enimity not full perfect.
- ☍ This aspect is of enimity most perfect.
How the day is divided or distinguished.
A day naturall is the space of foure and twenty houres, accounting the night withall, and beginneth at one of the clocke after midnight.
An artificiall day is that space of time, which is betwixt the rising and falling of the ☉ &c. All the rest is night 〈◊〉〈◊〉 beginneth at the ☉ rising▪
Hereafter followeth a table, shewing how the day and the night is divi∣ded by houres, and reduced to the regiment of the planets.
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The division of the day, and the planetary regiment.
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The division of the night, and the planetary regiment.
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Notes
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* 1.1
The five pla∣netary aspects. Conjunct. Sextil. Trine. Quartil. Opposit.