The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...

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The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...
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Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
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London :: Printed by H. H. for John Leigh ...,
1683.
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Subject terms
Rothmann, Johann.
Booker, John, 1603-1667. -- Bloody Irish almanack.
Lilly, William, 1602-1681. -- Merlini Anglici ephemeris -- 1647.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Palmistry -- Early works to 1850.
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
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"The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65576.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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XX. The Index, or Fore-finger.

MAny Lines in the uppermost Joynt, and they proceeding overthwartly, denote Inheritances, but running so in the middle-joynt, an Envious and Evil Disposed Person.

Right Lines running betwixt those Joynts, declare (in Women) a Numrous Issue; In Men, Bitteness of the Tongue. If they be in the First Joynt, near

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unto Jupiters Mount, they manifest a Jovial Dispo∣sit••••••; that is, they point out the Man, whom Ju∣pit•••• favoured well in his Geniture.

That Woman who hath a Star in the same Place, may safely be Pronounc'd unchast, and Lascivious.

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