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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Title: 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.
Author: Rothmann, Johann.
Publication: London :: Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angell in Corne-Hill,; 1652.
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Subject terms: Palmistry -- Early works to 1800.; Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
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The lesse Principall Lines,

Are not in every ones Hand, or when they be, not very clearely to be seene. And of these there are Five in Number.

1. Via Solis, or the Sunn's way, which is a Right Line running downewards from the Tu∣berculum (or Rising Part) of the Ring-Finger, into the Cavitie of the Hand.

2. Via Lactea, or the Milkie-way, running upward, from the Restricta, through the Feri∣ens.

3. Saturnia, or the Line of Saturne thence as∣cending through the Midle of the Vola, to the Tuberculum of the Midle-Finger: which Line, if it be cut and parted, is called Via Combusta, or the Burnt way.

4. Cingulum Veneris, or the Girdle of Venus, which is the Figure of a Hemicycle, drawne from the space betwixt the Fore-finger and Middle-finger to the space betwixt the Ring-finger and Litle-finger.

5. Linea Martis, the Line of Mars, or the Vitall Sister, which is Parallel to the Line of Life, in the Turberculum of the Thumbe.