The book of knowledge : treating of the wisdom of the ancients : in four parts : I. Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... on the bodies of men, &c. II. Prognostications for ever necessary to keep the body in health; with several choice receipts in physic and surgery. III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's calendar ... (1806)
Erra Pater, Lilly, William, 1602-1681, Duyckinck, Evert, 1764?-1833, publisher · New-York : Published by Evert Duyckinck ... · leaf 71
ishness. II. Of Palmestry, shewing the various Judgmentsdrawn from the Hand. I SHALL next say something of Palmestry,which is a judgment made of the conditions,inclinations, and fortunes of men and women, fromthe lines and characters which nature has imprint-ed in the hand, which are almost as… … By this figure the reader will see that one of thelines, and which indeed is reckoned the principal,is called the line of life; this line incloses the thumb,separating it from the hollow of the hand. The nextto it, which is called the natural line, takes its be-ginning from the rising of the…
Hygiene · Astrology · Physiognomy
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