Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature.

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Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature.
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[London] :: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge,
[1699]
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Riddles -- Early works to 1800.
Fortune-telling -- Early works to 1800.
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"Aristotle's legacy: or, his golden cabinet of secrets opened. In five treatices 1. The wheel of fortune. 2. The art of Palmestry. 3. A treatise of moles 4. The interpreter of dreams. 5. Observations on fortunate and unfortunate days. With many other secrets and experiments, never before published. To which is added, a compleat book of riddles. 1. The fortune teller, or knowledge of good & bad fortune, ... 7. Also the best and most powerful receipt for making love powder. To which are added twenty merry and pleasant riddles, with their solutions or explanations: the whole illustrated throughout with curious cuts, proper to each particular: being the best, most exact, and accomplished book of this nature." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75577.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Phisognomy, or good and bad ortune, told by the Lines of the ace; and first of the Planets, and governing Signs.

PHysognomy, as to the Lines of the face, and other Remarkable things in it, under the influence of the Planets and Signs, that Govern the Parts of the Body, are mainly significant, as to knowing good or bad fortune, in Men or Wo∣men; whereby one may, as it were, Read men and women, and understand by the outward parts, their manners, inclinations, and intellectual faculties; as well as what shall befal them in the progress of their Lies: for the face, &c. is under the Government, and Dominion of the Planets. Thus the fore-head is governed by Mars; the right Eye by Sol; the left by the Moon; the Right Ear by Jupiter;

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the Left by Saturn, the Nose by Venus; and the Mouth by Mercury: As for the signs of the Zodiack, Cancer governs the height of the Fore-head, Leo the right

[illustration] two male faces, one with its features marked with planetary signs, the other with zodiacal signs
Eyebrow; Virgo the right Cheek; Libra the right Ear; Scorpio the Nose; Sagi∣tarius the right Eye, Capricorn the Chin; Aquarius the left Eye; Pisces the left Cheek; Aies the left Ear; Taurus the middle Fore-head.

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