Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.
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Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.
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Rothmann, Johann.
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London :: Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angell in Corne-Hill,
1652.
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Palmistry -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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"Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91999.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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The Principall Lines.
1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Cardiaca [that is, the Line of, or belonging to the Heart] which includeth and imbraceth the Mount of the Thumbe. It is also called, The Line of Life.
2. Epatica, The Liver-Line, or the Naturall-Meane, which runnes through the Midle of the Hand, arising from the same place with the Cardiaca at the Roote of the Fore-finger.
3. Cephalica, or the Line of the Head and Braine, which ariseth below from the Cardiaca, and (being drawn thence to the Epatica) makes a Triangular Figure.
4. Thoralis, the Table-Line, or the Line of Fortune, which takes its originall under the Mount, or Roote of the Litle-Finger, and extends it selfe towards the Fore-Finger.
5. Restricta, or the Dragon's Tayle, which seperates and distinguishes the Hand from the Arme, either by a Simple or
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Double Transcursion. This Line determineth the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Subject of the Art. It is likewise called the Discriminall Line.
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