The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.
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- The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.
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- Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.
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- [Imprinted at London :: By [Henry Denham for] William Seres, dwelling at the west ende of Paules Church, at the signe of the Hedgehogge],
- 1571.
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- Physiognomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68187.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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THe spaces betwéene the eye broowes, néere ioy∣ning togither: declare that person to be a nig∣gard, enuious, verye much desirous of bewtifull things, hauing a straunge fortune, and more ri∣gorous than gentle in behauiour.
The spaces betweene the eye broowes, if they be large: doe denote such a person to be of a dull capacitie, yet of a great boldnesse, verie trustie in neede, of a perfite & an vpright friendship: these hitherto Michael Scotus: if we may credite the agréement of these sayings.