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Title: Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... : to which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy
Year: 1681 (1680s)
Authors: Salmon, William, 1644-1713 Sherwin, William, active 1670-1710 Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698 Vaughan, William, active 1664 White, Margaret, fl. 1678-1683 Crump, John, fl. 1673-1682
Subjects: Art Portrait painting Workshop recipes Toilet preparations Palmistry
Publisher: London : Printed by M. White, for John Crumpe, at the Sign of the Three Bibles in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ams is made and continuedon the ether fide of the fame fiat. XI X. When thefe faces on a Cryftal are returned towards a plain placed directly before it, they feparatethemfelvcs at a good diftance on the plain-, becaufethey are all directed to various far diftant places of thelame. XX. But for the aligning to each of them a placeon the fame plain, no Geometrick rule is yet in-vented. CHAP. XXV. A Rational Demon(Iration ofchiromanticaH,Signatures • Added by way of Appendixt$ Chap. VIII. of this Book, T- THc foundation of Chiromancy depends uponM the true appropriation of the feveral mounts,fingers, or places in the hand, to their proper Stars orPlanets. II. The Ancients have affigned the root of themiddle finger to Saturn \ of the fore-finger to Jupiter :the hollow of the hand to Mars: the root of thering-finger to Sol: of the thumb to Venus : of thelittle finger to Mercury: and laftly, the brawn of thehand near the wriil to Luna. III. That line which comes round the ball of the thumb
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