Vnheard-of curiosities concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the patriarkes; and the reading of the stars. Written in French, by James Gaffarel. And Englished by Edmund Chilmead, Mr. of Arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon.

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Vnheard-of curiosities concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the patriarkes; and the reading of the stars. Written in French, by James Gaffarel. And Englished by Edmund Chilmead, Mr. of Arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon.
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Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681.
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London :: Printed by G.D. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard,
1650.
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"Vnheard-of curiosities concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the patriarkes; and the reading of the stars. Written in French, by James Gaffarel. And Englished by Edmund Chilmead, Mr. of Arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85346.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.

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The First Table of the Celestial Constellations, expressed by Hebrew Characters.

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THe Characters of these two Tables are something different from those, which Bonavent ure Hepburn, a Scot, hath out in Wood; and from those 〈◊〉〈◊〉 other also, which Duret hath set down, in his History of Languages. For I have made choice to follow those, delivered by R. Chomer, a man more skil∣•••••• in this Particular, then either of the former: as being one of the most Learned amongst the Jewes, of our times. And yet, I confesse, some of the haracters are not right, through the Gravers fault: yet the difference is so little, as that it cannot be of any great consequence, or importance. The two ables are divided by the Equator; and the Stars are ranged here, in the same order, that they are in the Globe: only those Stars, which are under the Aspects of any of the Planets, cannot be supposed to make up the same Letters now, which you here find represented, and which they made before; be∣cause that these Planets, which by reason of their Wanderings, cannot be here set down, do daily, by their various Motions, create New, and Different 〈…〉〈…〉.

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