The new astrology; or the art of predicting or foretelling future events, by the aspects, positions, and influence of the heavenly bodies, founded on scripture, experience, and reason ... in two parts ... / By C. Heydon.

  • Heydon, Christopher, Sir, 1561-1623
Date:
1786
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Credit: The new astrology; or the art of predicting or foretelling future events, by the aspects, positions, and influence of the heavenly bodies, founded on scripture, experience, and reason ... in two parts ... / By C. Heydon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all Nature then begins to multiply and flourifh, and alTumcs, as it were, a new refurrcdlion. Thefe fix northern fip-ns terminate with V^irf^'o; and the fix fouthern commence with Libra. The northern figns have always been confidered of a mofe efficacious and noble nature than the fouth- ' ern. Philofophers have alfo alfigned other reafuns, which are beyond our limits to mention. We will now arrange the figns of the T^ooiac under all their different qualities and forms; obferving every fign is divided into thirty equal parts, called degrees; each degree divided irfto fixty minutes; each minute into fixty feconds, &c. ' Divifion of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. Signs oppofite, are the firft fix to the laft fix. ^ b II SB ^ Northern and commanding Signs, , ttL X ^ ^ ^ Southern and obeying Signs. Thefe figns are divided according to their four Triplicities ; each Triplicity is of the fame na- ture, and makes a perfed Triangle or Trine : . S' Fiery Triplicity ^ SI ^ Hot and dry. Earthly ditto - Cold and dry. Airy ditto - - Hot & moiff. Watery ditto - Cold & moiff.