Christopher Cattan, Geomancy (1591)
Date
1591
Author
Book title
The Geomancie of Maister Cristopher Cattan. A Booke, no lesse pleasant and recreatiue, then of a wittie inuention, to knowe all thinges, past present, and to come. Whereunto is annexed the wheele of Pythagoras. Translated out of French into our English tongue
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Wolfe
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- cosmography and astrology
- magic
Summary
Logical definitions, as in "An abridgement of the signification of the twelue houses of the Zodiacke" (a4v-b1v)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: "The first house is commonly called the Horoscope or Angle of the Orient, and his ascendant signifieth all the beginnings of life, and of all workes." (a4v-b1r)
"GEomancie is a Science and Art which consisteth of points, prickes, and lines, made in steade of the foure Elementes, and of the Starres and Planets of Heauen called, the Science of the earth, because in times past it was made on it, as we will hereafter declare." (c2r)
sample: "The first house is commonly called the Horoscope or Angle of the Orient, and his ascendant signifieth all the beginnings of life, and of all workes." (a4v-b1r)
"GEomancie is a Science and Art which consisteth of points, prickes, and lines, made in steade of the foure Elementes, and of the Starres and Planets of Heauen called, the Science of the earth, because in times past it was made on it, as we will hereafter declare." (c2r)
STC
4864
Other editions
1608: STC 4865 (British Library 719.e.44)
Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70.
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