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 June 15, 2024.

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Example VI.
The Brother of the former Borne in the yeare 1588. December 17. (New Stile,) at 5. in the Morning.

[illustration] depiction of palm of hand with markings.

1. MArs (Lord of the Horoscope) received of Venus from Houses, (yet they de∣jected) ingenders Lust, and Incontinency. You see the Region of Venus how evidently it is

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adorned with Furrowes, a Crosse being posited in the upper part thereof: which oftentimes produceth Adulteries.

2. Iupiter is partly collocated in the Mid-heaven, making a sufficiently decent Triangle with Saturne and Mercury, in Earthly Signes. And therefore Iupiter adorneth his Seate by the little Line, and the Crosse annexed there∣unto: whence you may conjecture, that this Planet hath greatest Dominion over the Na∣tive. His Significations may be collected from what hath beene said before, yet more Re∣misly, because he is in his Detriment.

3. Saturne (in Conjunction with the Moone;) is Lord of the Geniture, and this by a double Proportion in respect of Iupiter. And therefore you see the Saturnia whole and Entire, and which is more, a Sister annexed thereunto, the same extending beyond the Thorall by a de∣cent Tract.

4. Although that from Iupiter, Venus, and Saturne, there be something (of Wit) demon∣strated: yet you may see the Cephalica drawne to the Taberculum of Mercury; and the Au∣ricular bearing a small Line, which is cleare enough, and running through the Ioint it selfe.

Mercury in the Geniture, in Capricorne, promotes the Wit exceedingly, (and so he does when he is in Aquarius and Libra, in which

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Signes Saturne predominates.) The like is de∣clared by the Trine of Iupiter, and also the Sextile of Mars and Mercury: But the Quar∣tile of Mars afflicts Mercury, obstructing the Atainement of Honours.

5. The Moone is excellently well-Posited in Taurus, and in Trine to the Sun; but yet in the Cuspe of the sixth, and therefore Two litle Cleare Lines adorne the Ferient, assuring an Increase of Honourable Journeyes.

6. The Via Solis whole, and equally drawne, promises the Favour of Noble Men, and Joyfull Honours. The Dignities fore-seene by the Geniture will come by the Excellent knowledge of Learning, and from such things as are dedicated to Mercury: The Position of the Sun in Capricorne, brings something pecu∣liar to all manner of Affaires.

7. The Mensa it selfe of a large Capacity, confirmes the former significations. A Crosse there troubling the Saturnia, shews some Mis∣fortune to descend from the Malice of Sa∣turne. The Opposition of Venus and Saturne, is not onely adverse to Matrimony, but also usually wont to deny Issue.

8. The Thorall emitting little Branches to∣wards the Ferient, doth sometimes presage Poverty. Thus (we hope) both the Lines of this Hand, and the significations of the Geniture, have been sufficiently examined.

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