G. NORMAN, PRINTER, MAIDEN LANE, COVENT GARDEN.

Preface

Introduction

CONTENTS.

Definition of Astronomical Terms, &c.

Instructions and Illustrations preparatory to the Computation

of Primary Directions

To find the Sun's Declination, Longitude, and Right Ascension

To find the Right Ascension and Declination of a Star, with

Latitude

Note.-The Sun as well as the stars has a small latitude,
but too small to be important in astrological problems.

To find the Ascensional Difference, the Semidiurnal and Semi-
nocturnal Arc, and the Oblique Ascension and Descension of
the Sun or a Star

To find the Pole of Position of the Sun or a Star

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To find the Pole of Position of any Celestial House

Demonstration that these Poles are variable

To find what Point of the Ecliptic occupies the Cusp of any

Celestial House

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To Erect an Horoscope by the Globes

40

To Direct any Significator in the Zodiac without Latitude

Ditto, with Latitude

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Rules and Instructions to Calculate a Nativity

Exemplary Nativity, with every Direction (150) calculated in full,

with copious explanations

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Nativity of the Author, with Calculations of 130 Directions
and more brief explanations

To Direct any Significator, with and without Latitude, by the

Celestial Globe

Rules for Describing the Personal Appearance

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On the Effects of Directions, and first to find the Hyleg or

Table of the Essential Dignities and Debilities of the Planets 179

PREFACE.

In the present flourishing, though, it may be added, infant state of Astrology, it will not be a matter of astonishment that a new treatise should be ushered into the world, professing to elucidate the objects of this important science.

The object of the present treatise is to open to the eye of the young student every intricate part of Genethliacal Astrology. It is true that many works have already appeared professing to do this, but the generality of them are replete with the most extravagant and ridiculous absurdities; and, it may be safely added, that no complete work on this science, founded exclusively on the principles of mathematics and natural philosophy, has yet been presented to the public.

The plan I have adopted I flatter myself will meet with the approbation of every candid reader. Originality, moral purity, and beauty of design, have been my principal aims; but in these it is not for me to shew how well I have succeeded. The astronomical diagrams, and the rules for erecting a celestial scheme and working zodiacal directions by the globes, are rarities in a work of this nature; no obsolete tables are used in the calculations, and some knowledge of the use of logarithms will suffice alone to enable the curious to judge for himself on a science which, if not generally considered philosophical and worthy of study, is at least one of the most interesting, mysterious, and antique in existence.

I might, in accordance with the prevailing customs observed in prefaces, enumerate the contents and dwell upon the beauties of my work; but these will be sufficiently obvious to the reader; suffice it to say, that originality is its principal feature as well in the elementary instructions as the nativities contained in the latter part of the book. These nativities, it is presumed, contain proofs of the truth of astrology sufficiently luminous to defy the united efforts of the sceptic and the critic, to shew the futility of its principles.

This work was ready for the press in A.D. 1831, but circumstances, which it would be useless to explain, have delayed its publication. If the treatise had been then published, it would have appeared under the auspices of Raphael, the late celebrated author of "The Prophetic Messenger," the "Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century," and many other popular works on Astrology. Raphael is now no more, (Requiescat in pace) but it is with pleasure I refer the reader to a notice of The Star in the "Familiar Astrologer," one of the last of his publications.