Unheard-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.

  • Jacques Gaffarel
Date:
1650
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Credit: Unheard-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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NN ER TES DER ET PME TRES SS EE DE nl EE PES POTENT Et te oe Seeger D +4 > er PSE PLETE T Vnheard-of Curiofities. wrought fo many Mitacles : The feventh, the litle Worme, called VOY Schamir , which Solomon üfed , inthe hewing , and cutting of the ftones ,' for the building of the Temple, that ‘it might be done without noife , though they were very great, and very hard: as you may {ce inthe ftory of this ftately Building ; and alfo inthe Commentary that. Ben Maimon hath made expreffely of this Infect. The Higth, the writing ofthe Tables of the Law : the Ninth , Mofes his Tomb : andthe Tenth, the Ram that was facrificed, inftead of sfaack. Some adde to thefe the Devills, and Evill fpi- tits. Now all the fe things feeme very ridicu- ous atthe firft fight , which yet are in effect very Curious, neceflary,and ufefull : as I fhall Ja noft- jn another place make it more plainly appear, ro Crit? it being too long a difcourfe to inferthere. « In fico. the meane time let us rely upon the judgment of Paulus Fagins in this particular, who fayes: qu Pire Hac quidem aliquo modo in fpeciem ridtcula, Cr a fiulta effe videntuy , fed que certè non carent {u- is myftert]5. Beh iad ; étrine of the Rabbins,’ that is accounted a ve- fy ridiculous, ifnot a very rafhone. : Thele Knowing men, having confidered the Order that God obferved in the Creation of the world | and how that, having in fixe daies perfected all his workes , he refted on the {e- a venth: | ~