Author: Digges, Leonard; Gunther, R. T., editor.
Title: Prognostication.
Description: Oxford, U.K.: Old Ashmolean Reprints, (1926). (1926). - Small octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The binding is darkened & soiled with the titling on the spine faded. The head of the spine & the top edge of the front wrap are chipped. xvi & 76 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white tables & diagrams. The contents are very good. Good.

Old Ashmolean Reprints III. A reprint originally prepared for a meeting of the British Association in 1926 and thereafter available from the editor. The book was originally published in London in 1555. Digges offers rules for forecasting the weather, as well as various disasters such as wars, death, drought and sickness, through the study of the planets and other natural phenomena. Good .

Keywords: SCIENCE; METEOROLOGY; SUPERSTITION; PROPHECY; WEATHER FORECASTING; PROGNOSTICATION; LEONARD DIGGES; SIXTEENTH CENTURY PUBLICATION; 16TH CENTURY PUBLICATION; OLD ASHMOLEAN REPRINTS; R. T. GUNTHER, EDITOR; PLANETS; ZODIAC; CONJUNCTION OF PLANETS; NATURAL PH

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