The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. Collected into one entire volume / By John Gadbury.
- Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
- Date:
- 1683
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London : Printed by H.H. for J. Leigh [etc.], 1683.
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16 unnumbered leaves, 670 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : t.page in red & black, woodcut diagrams, frontispiece (portrait), plate, illustrations ; (8vo)
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The festivals and fasts of the Jews and Christians.--A discourse of the observation of Easter.--Apostelesma; or, The nativity of the world.--Of the world's revolution.--Of the epochæ.--A short discourse of years, months and days.--Of the planetary aspects, &c.--The nature of eclipses, &c.--Of the crises in diseases.--Of the mutations, &c., of empires, kingdoms, &c.--The names, genus and species of comets.--How astrology may be restored; from Morinus.--The cabal of the twelve houses astrological, from Morinus.--An astrological judgement upon His Majesties present march: begun from Oxford, May 7, 1645 (with special t.-p.)--Bellum hybernicale; or, Ireland's war astrologically demonstrated ... The ignorance ... errors ... of John Booker (in his ... A bloody Irish almanack, &c.) discovered (with special t.-p. dated 1647)--Merlini Anglici errata; or, The errors ... of Mr. Lilly's new ephemeris for 1647 (with special t.-p.)--Multiplicatio effectus syderum secreta
(cont.) Of the causes of earthquakes.--How the weather is governed.--Poems.--Gesta Britannorum; or, A succinct chronology ... 1600-1667 (with special t.-p)--[Chiromantiæ]: or, The art of divining by the lines ... in the hand of man ... by Jo. Rothman ... Englished by G. Wharton (with special t.-p.)--A brief discourse of the soul of the world.
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ESTC R15152
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), W1538
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