Unheard-of Curiosities/11

by Jacques Gaffarel

the contents.

1. The Celestiall Constellations were anciently marked with Hebrew Characters.
2. How the Celestiall Signes are figured in the Spheares, and Globes of the Arabians. That of Virgo hath a Mystery in it.
3. A new Observation on the Hebrew names of the Planets.
4. A Table, by which the Jewes erected their Nativities. The use of it.
5. Demonstrative Reasons, why the Dayes follow not the Order of the Planets. A Genethliacall Table of the Ancient Hebrews.
6. The difference betwixt the Ancient's manner of giving judgment upon a Nativity, and that of the Astrologers of our Times. The Fable of Lucina laid open.
7. The Moon, why called Lunus, and Luna ; and the Heavens, Cœlus, and Cœlum.
8. A new, and Certaine Reason, why the Poets report that Saturne eat up his Children.
9. What Qualities the Ancients acknowledged to be, in the Celestiall Signes.
10. The Authors Judgement, upon the Astrologicall Writings of R. Abraham Aben-Are, translated into Latine by the Conciliator.
11. What Planets were accounted benigne, by the Ancient Hebrewes. What Ceremony the new-married man used, toward his bride.
12. This Astrology of the Ancients is proved out of the Holy Scriptures. Reasons which prove, that נר Gad (which was the name of one of the Sonnes of Jacob,) is the Planet Jupiter.
13. The Ægyptians the first that corrupted this Astrology. It is false notwithstanding, that they were the Inventors of the Characters of the Planets. Fables introduced into Astrology, by the Greeks.
14. Athlon, a word in Nativities, used by Manilius, rightly interpreted, contrary to Scaliger.