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.
- Author
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
- Publication
- 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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"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 May 21, 2024.
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The Stationers TO The Readers.
Gentlemen, &c.
WE suppose you are not ignorant of the (praise∣worthy) Labours which this Author (of deserved Memory) hath (hereto∣fore)
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published; there∣fore it would be a need∣less Task for us to under∣take the Praise of him, (who is so generally known, and whose Parts are so highly approved of, and commended by the most Ingenious of this Age) or the true worth of the Work it self, which a short time and experi∣ence will give you to un∣derstand.
All we shall trouble
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you (or our selves) with herein, is, onely to assure you that this Tract is cer∣tainly his, (under whose name it goes) and no a∣buse fathered upon him: which plainly appears by the testimony of his own hand-writing, in the Ori∣ginal Manuscript: for he had compleatly perfected it, with a full intent to publish it, long before his death: but some urgent occasion frustrating his
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then-resolution, it rested for a time; in which space death suddenly snatching him away, he could not see it printed; But having committed it to the custo∣dy of a friend, he choice∣ly kept it, and hath now permitted it to be publish∣ed, to the honour of his dear friend, though dead, yet living; and for the perpetual good of all those who truely love Arts and Sciences.
Richard Moone, Stephen Chatfield.