The book of knowledge : treating of the wisdom of the ancients : in four parts : I. Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... on the bodies of men, &c. II. Prognostications for ever necessary to keep the body in health; with several choice receipts in physic and surgery. III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's calendar ... / written by Erra Pater ... ; made English by W. Lilly ... ; to which is added, the true form of all sorts of bills, bonds, counter-bonds.

Date:
1806
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Credit: The book of knowledge : treating of the wisdom of the ancients : in four parts : I. Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... on the bodies of men, &c. II. Prognostications for ever necessary to keep the body in health; with several choice receipts in physic and surgery. III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's calendar ... / written by Erra Pater ... ; made English by W. Lilly ... ; to which is added, the true form of all sorts of bills, bonds, counter-bonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATING OF THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS PART I. Shewing the various and wonderful Operations of the Signs and Planets, and other celestial Constellations, on the Bodies of Men, Women and Children, and the mighty influences they have upon those that are born under them. ONE part of the wisdom of the ancients con- sisted in the observation of several days and times, and from thence foretelling such good and bad events, as from long experience they found always to follow: And therefore revising whar ancient astrologers have said, which I found very defective, I have myself made an exact judgment of what should befal men, women, and children, by the day of the we~k on which the first day oi the year happened to fall: as if it happened tc fall on a Sunday] The winter following will be pleasanf. the summer seasonable ; there shf-ll be plenf;- nf