XII. MARS.
MArs is Fortunate, so often as his Sister appeareth red, cleare, and decently
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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"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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drawn, and when either Starres, or a Crosse are found in his Cavea.
Thus therefore he denotes such as are bold, and full of courage, stout, warlike, contentious and not easily mutable, strong, and lusty trencher-men, imperious: The haire for the most patt yellow, the Eyes from black wax∣ing red and terrible. If Iupiter participate, he possesseth the Gall, the Reynes, the Back, the Liver; If with Venus, the privy Members, &c.
But if he be Froward and Infortunate, that is, when his Signes, and Place are afflicted, &c. He describes Men that be Litigious, Violent, Deceitfull, Angry, Intollerable: Also (the rest dissenting) Theeves, Bloody-minded, and such whose Arts or Occupations are con∣versant with Fire, and Iron. Hee hath signi∣fications of a Wife, Sonnes, and dissembled Friendships: thus also hee ingendereth Fea∣vers, and Blisters or Wheeles, filthy Eyes, and skin, the Apoplexy, Holy fire, wounds, and troubled thoughts.
If you finde a Saturnine Particle in the Ca∣vea of Mars, it threatens a Precipice, or fall, from some high Place.
If there ascend a crooked Line from the same Cavea, to the Tuberculum of Saturne, it threatens imprisonment.
If a Line run from the Cavea of Mars to∣wards
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the Restricta, and terminate in that part thereof which is under the place of the Moon, it is an infallible signe of many Peregrinations and Journeys.