INDAGINE, Johannes ab. Introductiones apotelesmaticae elegantes, in Chyromantiam, Physionomiam, Astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, Naturas planetarum. Cum periaxiomatibus de faciebus Signorum, & canonibus de aegritudinibus, nusquam ferè simili tractata compendio.
In-8, [dimension: 168 x 107 mm] de 186 pp., 3 ff. blancs. Veau brun, plats ornés aux armes de Jacques-Auguste de Thou. (Reliure de l'époque.)
Exemplaire aux armes de Jacques-Auguste de Thou, avec sa signature sur les deux titres et sa côte de bibliothèque au contre-plat. Portrait d'Indagine sur le titre et 83 bois gravés qui illustrent la chiromancie, la physionomie, l'astrologie et des représentations allégoriques des planètes. Ces charmantes gravures sont attribuées à Bernard Salomon.
"Presumably the combination of astrology, physiognomy and chyromancy with humanistic bias and some approach to Protestant partisanship accounted for its long and widespread currency north of the Alps." Thorndike, History of magic & experimental science V, 66.Caillet 5388. Cartier, Biblio. des éditions des de Tournes 333.
Relié à la suite : - [HAJEK, Tadeas ] HAGECIUS ab HAGEK. Aphorismorum metoposcopicorum libellus unus. Editio secunda. Francfort, haeredes Andrea Wechel, 1584.(4)79pp.
(bound as a follow-up)
Ce très rare traité de physionomie est illustré par 48 bois dans le texte. L'auteur était astronome à Prague et médecin de l'empereur Rudolph II. Dans l'avis au lecteur, il discute de la comète de 1572. On trouve à la fin de l'ouvrage deux lettres de Rheticus à Hajek où il l'informe qu'il a en main l'ouvrage de Copernic et qu'il pense à en donner un commentaire. "Controversy as to the new star of 1572 waxed very hot in some quarters. Thaddeus Hagecius refers back to it in [this] treatise of 1584."
(this rare treatise of pyhysiognomy is illustrated with 48 in-text wooden cuts ; the author was an astronom in Prague and a physician of Emperor Rudolph II. In the " ad lectorem " part, he discusses 1572 comet ; at the end of the book one finds two letters from Rheticus to Hajek where he tells him he has with him Copernicus? work and that he intends to write some comment on it).
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1621 R. Burton Anatomy of Melancholy I. ii. i. iv. (1827) I. 84: Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metopscopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Ingadine, and Rotman (the landgrave of Hassia his mathematician) not long since in his Chiromancy, Baptista Porta, in his celestial Physiognomy, have proved to hold great affinity with astrology, to satisfie the curious, I am more willing to insert.
Ibid. 85: Chiromancy hath these aphorisms to foretell melancholy. Tasnier, lib. 5. cap. 2. (who hath comprehended the summ of John de Ingdine, Tricassus, Corvinus, and others, in his book) thus hath it: The Saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand, to Saturns mount, and there intersected by certain little lines, argues melancholy; so if the vital and natural make an acute angle. Aphorism 100: The Saturnine, epatick, and natur!
al lines,
making a gross triangle in the hand, argue as much...
1651 J. Ingadine tr. Fabian Withers Bk of Palmestry & Physiognomy a6v: The Ancient Greeks, who (as it may appear by the long and old use of the wand) did use this sort and kinde of Divination which is gathered by the beholding of mans hand, called it by the proper name of Chyromancia.
Ibid. B1v: And now I return to the rules of Chyromancie...
Jean