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.

Of the Planets.

The Planets also administer not a little in judgement, from their respective places: For, if they be Happy and Benevolent, good things are portended, but being Unhappy, and Fro∣ward, the contrary.

Here wee must also note; that those Planets

are tearmed Benevolent, in whose Tubercula, and places, the accustomed Lines are found to be Equall, their Characters faire and pro∣portionable, as a crosse, Starres, three, or foure parallel Lines, Ladders, little Branches, a Qua∣drangle, the character of Jupiter. But the Froward and Unfortunate are those Planets, whose Tubercula and places are deformed with Trouled lines, and Uncoth Figures, as a lame and interrupted Semi-circle, Grid-irons, the character of Saturne. And this is to be ob∣served in all the Lines of the Hand. Now as touching the Planets, let us proceed according to the Method proposed.