Opus astrologicum, &c. or, An astrological work left to posterity, by Nich. Culpeper, gent. Briefly containing, 1. A century of aphorisms, appropriated to the resolving of horary questions. 2. Elections astrological, for such as are going to war. 3. Elections and observations concerning journeys. 4. Elections for buildings, hidden treasures, and marriages. 5. Prognostications, and astrological secrets, proved by example.
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- Opus astrologicum, &c. or, An astrological work left to posterity, by Nich. Culpeper, gent. Briefly containing, 1. A century of aphorisms, appropriated to the resolving of horary questions. 2. Elections astrological, for such as are going to war. 3. Elections and observations concerning journeys. 4. Elections for buildings, hidden treasures, and marriages. 5. Prognostications, and astrological secrets, proved by example.
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- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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- London, :: Printed by J. Cottrel for Ri. Moone and Steph. Chatfield; at the seven stars in Paul's Church-yard, and in the middle of St. Dunstan's Church-yard.,
- 1654.
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- Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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"Opus astrologicum, &c. or, An astrological work left to posterity, by Nich. Culpeper, gent. Briefly containing, 1. A century of aphorisms, appropriated to the resolving of horary questions. 2. Elections astrological, for such as are going to war. 3. Elections and observations concerning journeys. 4. Elections for buildings, hidden treasures, and marriages. 5. Prognostications, and astrological secrets, proved by example." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67918.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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ASTROLOGICAL APHORISMS used in the Resolution of Hora∣ry Questions; with E∣lections and Considerati∣ons of great use in going to War, taking Journeys, erecting Buildings, ma∣king Marriages, &c. and reduced them into such a plain and easie Language and Method, as will suit with a very mean Capacity: not for Gain, Profit, nor Vain∣glory,
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(for those things I never desired, nor sought after) but out of an earnest desire to benefit my own Country-men, (who do very much want English Tracts of this nature) to advance this kinde of Learning, to serve and assist those that are Learners and Students in this so admirable, so ex∣cellent an Art and My∣stery, and to stir up more active Pens to a publishing things of this nature, at
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this time, now this kinde of Learning is so much vilist∣ed and reproached, by a company of men that are both ignorant and malici∣ous, who like the Fox in the Fable, that discommended the Grapes, because he could not reach them; so these despise Learning, be∣cause they cannot attain unto it.
But the Reproaches of the Ignorant I shall not value, nor shall I doubt