The geomancie / of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman. A booke, no lesse pleasant and recreatiue, then of a wittie inuention, to knovve all thinges, past, present, and to come. Whereunto is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras. Translated out of French into our English tongue [by Francis Sparry].

  • Cattan, Christoforo.
Date:
1591
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Credit: The geomancie / of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman. A booke, no lesse pleasant and recreatiue, then of a wittie inuention, to knovve all thinges, past, present, and to come. Whereunto is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras. Translated out of French into our English tongue [by Francis Sparry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ted ofintlic fir ft Booke ofthis worke, is very cafte, know* ing, that in the fécond Book be contained the twèluc hou- fes of the Zodiabj^ the declaration whereofis declarcdat large in the eight and thirtie Chapter of the firfi Booke, e- uene one whereof containcth the queftions and demaunds which may be ordinarily inquired, and maybe propoun¬ ded in all thinges doubtfull and vneertaine. If there¬ fore after that tne figure hath bene made according to thy demaund,thou wouldeftknowe whether it fhall come to good e fie ft or not, you muff firfi: feeke out the houfe, and the number in the order of'thc demaundes where thy que- ftion ftandethand is contained* Then keeping the two numbers in your minde,the one of the houfe ,and the other of the demaundeSjhaue recourfe vnto the figure formed of* twelue figures, two witnefTeSjand a Iudge : and taking the firfi: according to the order and courfe which fhall be tolde you in the firit Booke, you fhall examine according as yee fhall findc in the firfi houfe the things making to your de- maund, be they good or ill : and fb mal ye doe of all the o- ther figures, eache one according to his houfe, order, and degree . Afterwardes you fhal looke to the generall rules of this Arte contained in the third Booke , by the which, with the knowledge and prafiife which you may haueof Aftrologtc, and thy owne good wit, thou may eft iudge the faide figure, and fo fhall you knowe this Science, | . 4 * • . • *An abridgement ofthefignificatton efthe twelue hohfes oft be Zocitache. - But forafmuch as the difeourfe ofthefe houfes, contai¬ ned in the fécond houfe is very long.For the eafier keeping of them in memory, 1 thoght it good here to abridge them to you,after the manner of Astronomers the Mathema¬ tical/ Profeflours of the Iudiciall Horofcofe and tAï/rologie. The first houfe. The firfi houfe is commonly called the Horofcope or Angle of the Orient, and his afeendant fignifieth all the beginnings