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CHAP. XXXVI.
Of Geomancy.
GEomancy, of which we have spoken before in the Chapter of Arithmetick, is an Art that by cer∣tain Points separated either by Chance or by Force; out of which it composes certain Figures by Numbers Even and Odd, likened to those in the Heavens; makes a kind of Divination, and therefore by all Writers call'd the Daughter of Astrology. There is another sort of Geomancy which Almadal the Arabian introduc'd; which by conjectu•es taken from sound, or appearance, as Noise in the Earth, motion, cleaving, swelling of the same, as also by the sounds of Thunder, raises a kind of Divination, or Fortune-telling; leaning intirely upon the Prop of Astrology, as very observant of hours, of Lunations, as also of the Rising, Setting, and Fi∣gures of the Stars.
Of Geomancy.
GEomancy, of which we have spoken before in the Chapter of Arithmetick, is an Art that by cer∣tain Points separated either by Chance or by Force; out of which it composes certain Figures by Numbers Even and Odd, likened to those in the Heavens; makes a kind of Divination, and therefore by all Writers call'd the Daughter of Astrology. There is another sort of Geomancy which Almadal the Arabian introduc'd; which by conjectu•es taken from sound, or appearance, as Noise in the Earth, motion, cleaving, swelling of the same, as also by the sounds of Thunder, raises a kind of Divination, or Fortune-telling; leaning intirely upon the Prop of Astrology, as very observant of hours, of Lunations, as also of the Rising, Setting, and Fi∣gures of the Stars.