ASTROLOGOMANIA [graece]: THE MADNESSE OF ASTROLOGERS. with an examination of Sir Christopher Heydons book intituled, A Defence of Judiciary Astrologie. Written by G.C. for the use of such as might haply be misled by astrologie and the Knights book. Published by T.V. B. of D.

Edité par London printed by R.C. for John Hammond, 1651

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Small 8vo (142 x 94mm), pp. [xvi], 186, [5] contents; complete with the original initial blank; cut a little close at head, but otherwise in fine fresh condition; in contemporary English sheep (corners worn, rebacked). Second edition: first published in 1624, in an edition printed by William and Isaac Jaggard, at almost the same time as they were printing the First Folio of Shakespeare but in fact it had originally been written twenty years before that, as an attack on the book by Christopher Heydon (1603), and was resurrected by Carleton's chaplain, Thomas Vicars (1589-1638), who was also his son-in-law. Carleton's words were as true then as they are now, but no more likely to convert the gullible: 'The operation of the Sunne and Moone that are naturall, are confessed. The Husbandman can tell when it will bee day, as well as the Astrologer. The Husbandman and Fishers, by marking the course of the Moone, can foretell the full Sea and Ebbe, more exactly then any Astrologer: what then? Are these Astrologicall Predictions?' (p. 74). Thomas Vicars contributes an entertaining preface which gives a human and very convincing dimension to his lack of belief in astrology and divination. When he was a child in Carlisle, 'there came an odde fellow about the Countrey: He was reputed a Cunning-man, and so called, for that he tooke upon him to tel Fortunes': this 'Wizard' told the fortunes of Vicars and a schoolfellow, predicting that the schoolfellow would become a preacher and Vicars a scrivener. In the event, the precise opposite turned out to be true. 'By which it is plain to be seen, that either the Devill himself did misse, or his instrument was mistaken in his informations' (f. A6r-v). In 1650, the year before this new edition appeared, Nicholas Fiske had discovered a manuscript which Heydon had left unpublished, An astrological discourse with mathematical demonstrations (Wing H1663). It is difficult to believe that the resurrection of this text the following year was unconnected with that book. Provenance: early ownership inscription (offset on opposite blank A1v) of Ni. Saunderson. Wing C584. …

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ASTROLOGOMANIA [graece]: THE MADNESSE OF ASTROLOGERS. with an examination of Sir Christopher Heydons book intituled, A Defence of Judiciary Astrologie. Written by G.C. for the use of such as might haply be misled by astrologie and the Knights book. Published by T.V. B. of D.
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[CARLETON, George, Bishop of Chichester.]
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London printed by R.C. for John Hammond
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1651
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