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 . 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-vent
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 . 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. Ibbl 7 J^j<t in maim onmnm homtnwn Jicina vofu :it vt coanojcereni ot \i ems jmquli. ? F. M. Van . Houe fee. t Chap. 2J. OfChiromantical Signatures. 47 humb towards the root or mount of Jupiter is call-ed Line a Jovulis or the lite-line: that from thewrifl to the root or mount of Saturn, Lima Satur-nialis : but if it points to the root or mount of Sol,Line a Solaris, if to Mercury, Lima Mercurialis : thatwhich goes from Line a Jovialis to the mount of Luna,Lima Lunaris, or the natural line: the other greatline above it is called Lima Stellata, or the line offortune,becaufe it limits the mounts of the Planets,and is imprefled with various vertues in thofe placesaccording to the nature of the Planet whole mount itruns under or fets a boundary unto: Laftly, the fpac
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