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Unheard-of Curiosities/Ⅲ

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Unheard-of Curiosities
by Jacques Gaffarel, translated by Edmund Chilmead
Of the Horoscope of the Patriarchs : or the Astrology of the Ancient Hebrews.
1550572Unheard-of Curiosities — Of the Horoscope of the Patriarchs : or the Astrology of the Ancient Hebrews.Edmund ChilmeadJacques Gaffarel

Chapters :

  1. That Idolatry is falsly said to have sprung from the Astrology of the Ancients.
  2. Whether, or no, the Ancient Hebrewes made use of any Mathematicall Instrument in their Astrology : and what the figure of their Instruments was.
  3. That the Astrology of the Ancient Hebrewes, Ægyptians, and Arabians was not such, as it is delivered by Scaliger, Augustinus Riccius, Kunrath, Duret, and Vigenere.
  4. What, in truth, was the course the Patriarchs, and Ancient Hebrewes took, in their Observations, at the erecting of a Nativity.