Frontispiece from Sibly 'New and complete illusration of the celestial science of astrology'. Ebenezer Sibly (1751 - 1799) was an English physician, astrologer and writer on the occult. As a student of medicine, he became interested in the theories on animal magnetism of Anton Mesmer, joining Mesmer's Harmonic Philosophical School. As an astrologer, Ebenezer is said to have used the Placidian system of houses; as a student of alchemy, he translated Bernard of Treviso (the fountain allegory).

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Ebenezer Sibly, Celestial Science of Astrology, 1784

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