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A Prognostication euerlasting of right good effect, : fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement foreuer, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall couses worthie to be knowne. : To these, and other now at the last, are ioyned diuers generall pleasant tables, with many compendious rules, easie to be had in memorie, manifold wayes profitable to all men of understanding.

Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559 · 1605 · [London] : Imprinted at London by Felix Kyngstone. · 1 picture

A popular English weather-and-astrology handbook by Leonard Digges, reprinted in London in 1605 by Felix Kyngston for farmers, sailors and ordinary readers judging seasons by sun, moon, stars and comets. The indexed image is a worn woodcut arc lined with dense comb-like hatching, printed over letterpress text — useful as a rough curved rule, ray pattern or textured astronomical diagram fragment.

Meteorology · Astrology · Astronomy · Imprint 1605

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