Volume 2

A manual of astrology, or the book of the stars. Which contains every requisite illustration of the celestial science; or the art of foretelling future events, by the influences of the heavenly bodies ... / By Raphael [pseud.].

  • Robert Cross Smith
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of astrology, or the book of the stars. Which contains every requisite illustration of the celestial science; or the art of foretelling future events, by the influences of the heavenly bodies ... / By Raphael [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oe] and meeting with the master thereof, they barbarously mur- dered him, as his horoscope foretold. Michael Scot, a mathematician and Astrologer of the thir- teenth century, was much esteemed by the emperor Frederic Li. He predicted that the emperor should die at Florence ; which prediction was answered by the event. He likewise foretold that himself should die wth the fall of a stone ; which hap- pened accordingly ; for being in a church at his devotions, a stone fell from the roof, which gave him a mortal wound. His | singular predictions caused him to be accused by the vulgar for a magician, although his contemporaries report him as a man of learning, and a great divine. Antiochus Tibertus was one of the most famous Astrologers of the fifteenth century ; and although his death was very un- happy, yet his singular predictions render his name immortal. He was a native of a town in Romagna: a certain officer carried him to Paris, where he studied; and where following the bent of his genius, he applied himself to the occult sciences, or rather to all the branches of that secret and curious art, called natural magic. Considering in his own mind that this science had been de- cryed from its having been mostly in the hands of bold, igno- rant, and profligate persons, he thought to restore it to its former credit and repute, by giving it all the advantages that could possibly be derived from physic, mathematics, natural philosophy, history, and the fine arts; of which he was a per- fect master. The pains he took in this respect, were attended with rather more success than-he anticipated; so much indeed, that before he quitted France, he had attained a very high re- putation, and was considered as the cleverest Astrologer of the day. . ~ Upon his return to his native country, where that sort of knowledge was in the highest repute, he found it necessary, for his own security, to ingratiate himself with some of the petty tyrants, or little rinces, that were possessed of the several cities and territories in Italy. Nor was it long be- fore he gained the confidence of Pandolfo Malatesta, at that time sovereign of Remini, with whom he lived in the greatest C %