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CHAP. XIII.
Of Geomancy.
A Rithmetick produces to us Geomantick Divination, Cards, Tables, and Dice; and whatsoever else in the Nature of Numeral Chances: This Geomancy most men do rather make a Member of Astrology, by reason that their method of judgment is the same;
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and because the force and vertue thereof consists not so much in Number, as in Motion, according to the say∣ing of Aristotle: The Motion of Heaven is perpetual, and is the Principle and Cause of all Inferiour Motions. Of this Geomancy, among the Ancients, Haly hath writ∣ten; among our Modern Authors, Gerard of Cremona, Bartholomaeus of Parma, and one Tundinus. I my self have written a Geomancy, far different from those before mentioned, though not less superstitious and fal∣lacious; or if you will, I may say, not less crow∣ded with Lyes.
Of Geomancy.
A Rithmetick produces to us Geomantick Divination, Cards, Tables, and Dice; and whatsoever else in the Nature of Numeral Chances: This Geomancy most men do rather make a Member of Astrology, by reason that their method of judgment is the same;
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and because the force and vertue thereof consists not so much in Number, as in Motion, according to the say∣ing of Aristotle: The Motion of Heaven is perpetual, and is the Principle and Cause of all Inferiour Motions. Of this Geomancy, among the Ancients, Haly hath writ∣ten; among our Modern Authors, Gerard of Cremona, Bartholomaeus of Parma, and one Tundinus. I my self have written a Geomancy, far different from those before mentioned, though not less superstitious and fal∣lacious; or if you will, I may say, not less crow∣ded with Lyes.