The knowledge of things unknown : shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations : with the strange events that befal men, women and children born under them / compiled by Godfridus ; together with The husbandman's practice, or, Prognostication for ever, as teacheth Albert, Alkind and Ptolomie ; with The shepherd's prognostication for the weather, and Pythagoras his wheel of fortune.

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167[6]
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[London] : Printed by W.T. and are sold J. Ho[se], 167[6]

Physical description

5 unnumbered pages, 172 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations

References note

Wing G931

Notes

Woodcut frontispiece.
Place of publication and bracketed characters in publication statement suggested by Wing.
Imperfect: pages cropped, stained and tightly bound with some loss of print.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Contents

The book of knowledge -- The husband-man's practice, or, Prognostication for ever / as teacheth, Albert, Alkind, Haly, and Ptolomy ; with The Shepherds perpetual prognostication for the weather. [London] : Printed for W.T. and are to be sold by J. Hose, 1676 (p. 77-136)--The shepherd's prognostication for the weather : with a brief chronology of divers memorable things since these hundred years, shewing in what year they happened and how long it is since to this year 1671 : with a brief colletion of all the members of man physiognomiz'd : and a judgment upon this significancation of moles on man or woman, from the head to foot / by Melampus, a Greek author ; also the wheel of fortune approved and confirmed by science and reason of Pythagoras, the most excellent philosopher, by which you may know all things that you will demand. [London] : Printed for W.T. and are to be sold by J. Hose, 1676 (p. [136]-172) -- Fairs : the names of the principal fairs in England and Wales.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1654:22) s1999 miun s

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