Collectio Geniturarum
John Gadbury · 1662
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Description
John Gadbury was a Restoration astrologer who feuded in print with rivals for decades. His Collectio Geniturarum, published in 1662, gathers a collection of one hundred and fifty nativities, birth charts of real people. The book is the great Restoration case-book of judicial astrology.
Each chart comes with the events of the life it maps: offices, marriages, illnesses, and deaths read against the planets. Gadbury meant the cases to prove the art by its hits, as a lawyer proves a rule by precedents. Students of the period still mine his collection for the lives it records in passing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | John Gadbury |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1662 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 545854 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |