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Unheard-of Curiosities/9

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Whether, or no, the Ancient Hebrewes made use of any Mathematicall Instrument in their Astrology : and what the figure of their Instruments was.

1550767Unheard-of Curiosities — Chapter Ⅸ.Edmund ChilmeadJacques Gaffarel

the contents.

  1. What Instruments the Ancient Astrologers used. The Fable of Atlas discovered.
  2. The Hebrewes Sphere described.
  3. Certain Doubts proposed, concerning the Fabrick of it. The strange conceit of R. Moses, concerning the number of the Heavens.
  4. A Conjecture upon the Antiquity of this Sphere.
  5. Of the Diall of Ahaz, and its description, not yet seen.
  6. Conjectures on the figure of our Sun-dials.