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A56504	Defectio geniturarum being an essay toward the reviving and proving the true old principles of astrology hitherto neglected or at leastwise not observed or understood : wherein many things relating to this science are handled and discoursed ... / by John Partridge.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1697 (1697)	Wing P617; ESTC R26179	278,401	372

being only excellent in Tricking and Cheating Nay I know one ignorant Fellow that hath lived by the Art these Thirty Years told mighty things about Cel●stial Influence and the truth of the Art in print and yet I often hear He doth in Company at Taverns say It is a Cheat that there is nothing in it and that he useth it only for a Livelikood I suppose you will guess at the man his Guts and his Brains often contend for the Preheminence Now let me exhort all those that are real well wishers to Astrology to set to the Work in earnest get many Nativities that are true 't is no matter what their Quality is work and observe whether your Directions have the same effects in one that they have in another's Nativity make your ●●lves Masters of Ptolemy 's Rules and Principles and make him your Standard to try your Operations by Learn to chuse your Giver of Life your Poiothanatos and your Biothanatos And when you are Masters of these you will be able to see through those Fooleries no win fashion among those that are your Masters and publick Teachers of the Art in all the corners of the Town When you are got into this Method and Way you will see a Prospect of arriving at something that will be satisfactory to the laborious Student in his farther pursuit after Truth and yet with me despair of ever seeing it brought to a compleat Perfection and both of us say with Campanella Ptolemeum sequimur Omnes enim Astrologi omnium temporum ab exordio Mundi ad nos non sufficiunt ad Astrologiam totam recte conficiendam And as a Conclusion to this Paragraph give me leave to say and that most truly That all Methods Ways and Projects in Astrology not founded on the Principles and Doctrine of Ptolemy are vain and idle and all those that employ themselves in such Methods c. do but trifle away their Time and are never the better When I quote Ptolemy in the following Treatise it is that Translation done by the Learned Melancthon and printed at Basil in the Year 1553. and is the best of all the Translations that are extant of the Quadripartite And I have an Intention to Print that Translation of Melancthon again it being grown very scarce and to Print Melancthon 's Epistle before it likewise and to add to it a short Comm●nt on the remarkable Chapters in the two last Books making it a handsom Pocket-Volume in a clear Letter an excellent Companion for those that are studious in this Art and whosoever is once Master of that Treatise will set a small-value on the rest of the Authors And it must be done at our own Charge because the Booksellers will not encourage it nor be at the Charge to do it will and fair When I quote Argol 's De Diebus Criticis it is that Edition Printed at Padua in the year 1652. and is both the best and last and a good thing in its kind though the Nativities are for the most part false and his Rules misappli'd I intend also to give the world a few Nativities perhaps an Hundred or Two in a way different to all that have gone before me and in all that I Print I will take care to give the true Estimate Time which all the Authors on that subject have hitherto omitted It is the want of that which hinders our examining those already printed and so prevents not only me but all men else to endeavour a Correction of them It is too arbitrary to impose upon mankind such Nativities that we have corrected and neither give Reasons nor the Estimate Time thereof to assist them that come after some differing Three Hours from the Estimate but commonly half an Hour or an Hour So that all that have been done hitherto are of no use but to stare upon and that with a doubtful Eye too I have not elected a Time for Publishing my Book which perhaps some will wonder at especially because Saturn is on my Radical Sun let it take its Fate if the present doth not like it the next Age I am sure will thank me for it and this Book will be the occasion of the Old Doctrine's Resurrection at one time or another And now Reader I give it into thy Hand prithee do not censure the Doctrine nor the Matter before you understand it you know whose Faculty that is read and consider well the matter throughout this whole Book and when thou hast done that lay by partiality and judge fairly and do by me as you would be done by were you in my place and station and then I can say you are a kind Reader and yet it is no more than you ought to do by all as well as From my House in Salisbury-street July 19th 1697. Your Friend John Partridge A Table of the Chapters and Nativities in this Book PART I. CHap. I. Prooemium pag. 1 Chap. II. Of a Scheme of the Twelve Houses 26 Chap. III. Of Directions to the Angles 39 Chap. IV. Of Directions to the Sun and Moon in the Zodiack 54 Chap. V. Of the Antiscions of the Planets 66 Chap. VI. Of the Part of Fortune 70 Chap. VII Of the Alchocoden 76 Chap. VIII Of the Almuten 79 Chap. IX Of the Alfridaries Chroa●cr●tors Lord of the Orb c. 81 Chap X. Of Transits and Eclipses 86 Chap. XI Of Heliocentrick Aspects and Directions 93 Chap. XII Of the Errors in Nativities handed down to us 101 PART II. The Introduction 112 The Nativity of Zaga Christi 114 Ca●dan the time only 113 Morinus 120 Gus●●vus Adolphus 127 Franciscus de Bonne 136 The Queen of Poland 138 French King 143 H●t●minga 147 Cardinal Richeli●u 154 Mousieur Tronson 155 Nativ of C. Condren 159 Observ. on Morine 's Theor. 162 PART III. The Introduction 175 Argol 's Animadversions 177 The Nativity of Pope Gregory XIII 184 Pope Sixtus Quintus 186 Pope Urban VII 188 Ca. Ascanius Columna 190 French K. Lewis XIII 192 Cardinal Farnesius 194 Ann Queen of Poland 195 Gonzague D. Ma●tua 197 the Duke of Veim●r 200 Duchess of Sfortia 203 Molinus Sen. of Venice 207 Ca. Verospius Roman 208 Cardinal Gipsius 211 Cardinal Mantica 214 Cardinal Spinellus 216 Cardinal Mazarine 219 Cardinal U●●inus 223 Octavian Ubaldinus 226 Oct●vianus Vestrius 229 La●rentius Mancinus 231 Cardinal Matteus 233 Cardinal Caesarinus 237 Cardinal De ●alneo 240 D●m Foelix Gloveria 243 N. Burattas Bononi 245 Cardinal Blanchettus 247 Cardinal Ubaldinus 250 Cardinal Paravacinus 253 Cardin. de Cornitibus 257 Cardinal Simoncelius 260 Examp. of direct ☽ to Antis 264 Observ. on ♁ being Hileg 266 PART IV. The Prooemium 270 The Nativity of the World Nero Alexander 271 Henry VI. K. of Engl. 272 Henry VIII 273 Edward VI. ibid. Q. Mary and Elizab. 275 King James I. 277 King Charles I. 278 Duke of Glocester 279 Lady Mary ibid. Duke of Lenox 280 Henry II. of France ibid. Henry III. IV. of Fr. 281 Frederick K. of