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.

Example VIII.

A certaine Man Borne on the Confines of Bo∣hemia, in the yeare of Christ 1588. the 8^th day of November (New stile) at 8 a Clock, 45. Min. 40. Sec. in the afternoone: the Latitude of the Place 50. Degr. 30. Min.

THis Gentiture is Fortunate, as are also the Lineaments of the Hand.

1. The Moon Partilly Posited in the Horo∣scope, in Trine of Mercury, demonstrates an Excellent Wit: so also the Reception of Mer∣cury and Mars, from Houses. The like Venus being Angular, and in her own House: And Lastly the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the House of Mercury, they imbraceing the Moone by a Sextile. The like is signified by the Cephalica, extending it selfe to the Tuber∣culum of Mercury: so likewise by the Finger and Tuberculum of Mercury, they exhibiting not undecent litle Lines. Herewith agrees the Mensa it selfe, and those very faire Characters in the Places of Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun.

2. Venus is conspicuous in her Furrowes as being Angular (at the Birth) in her owne House.

3. The Trine of the Sun and Mercury, (in

Watery-signes) to the Cuspe of the South-Angle, and Horoscope it selfe (where wee meete with the Moone, and also the Part of Fortune) Salutes him with Honours, and wish'd for successe of all things. Such a Trine is seldome met with. It promotes a Prosperous Fortune. Unto these let be added Venus Angular in Libra, &c. The Regions of the Sun, Iupiter, Venus, and the Moone, are excellently Beau∣tified in the Hand: And a double Triangle therein wonderfully accurring: one of which is form'd of the Vitall, Epatique, and Cepha∣lique Lines: The other, by the Cephalique, Men∣sall, and Vitall, if you adde the Little Line of the Vitall, which runs thence to the Tuberculum of Iupiter.

The Two Parallel Rules assist notably in Point of Marriage, Honours, Ingenuity and Affaires: One of which is made by the Line that passes from the Intervall of the Index and Medius, to the Mensall, touching the same, below the Intervall of the Medius and Annu∣lar; and thence Protracted to the Intervall of the Auricular and Annular; (some by such a Line Prophesy Incest,) the other from the Line falling from the Pollex, upon the Midle of the Vitall, and running thence by a Right Angle through the Cavity of the Hand, to the Naturall Meane. All these things doe plainly presage a most Excellent Man in all manner

of Sciences, especially the Mathematicks. And this very same judgement, manifestly ariseth from the Geniture, by the situation of Mer∣cury in Scorpio, the Positure of the Moone in the Horoscope, in her owne house, and the Trine of Mercury: Lastly, by the Reception of Houses betwixt Mars, and Mercury Be∣sides, the Sextile of Mars and Mercury &c. argues Celerity: the which are so manifest to the Intelligent, they cannot be look'd upon and conferr'd without Admiration.

[illustration] depiction of palm of hand with markings.

5. The Region of the Moone, presenting a very Cleare Line, betokeneth Journeys: the Moon Angular, in a moveable signe, the same: so also Mercury Received of Mars, Lord of the Third.

6. The Vitall, and that Line which Runs from the Tuberculum of Saturne through the Hand, unto the Region of the Moone, doe seeme to resemble a Skale, or Ladder, of an Excellent Bignesse, and that by a Notable tract: In which Skale are every where found Transverse Lines, requisite to the Shape there∣of. This presages a wonderfull and formi∣dable tract of Dignities, but not without Great Envy.

7. As touching Riches, what need wee say more? There are no Dignities, no Kingly and magnificent Affaires, wherein an Affluence of all things is wanting. Venus Centrally in the 4. House, contributes Honourable Possessions in his Old Age, and no little Fame after his Death: you see how her Taberculum even Lux∣uriates with accustomed Incisures.

8. The Vitall diversly Cut, concernes no small or Light Infirmities. In the 5^th yeare of his Age, hee was sick of the small Pox. The rest you may judge to fall out in the 11, 21, 25, & 43 Yeares of his Age, or there∣about.

9. Moreover, Saturne projecting (in his

Region) an Incisure, through the Mensall, bodes a Disease in the lower part of the Belly: (I suppose the Stone in the Bladder, &c.) As therefore this Geniture of it selfe, is happy; so are likewise the Lineaments of his Hand, and the Conveniency in the Lines themselves, which was to be Proved.