Salmon, William: Polygraphice: Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming: In Four Books ... To which is added A Discourse of Perspective and Chiromancy (London, 1675)

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iurface cut into many others, whereby the raies of the
object are broken.
For, to the flat of the Crystal or water, the raies run
streigbth but then they breas^and makg an Angle j the
which alsoby the resrailed beams is made and continued
on the other side os the same ssat. '
XIX. When these faces on a Crystal are turned to-
wards a plain, placed direclly before it, they separate
themselv.es at a good distance on the plain i because
they are all directed to various far distant places of the
lame.
XX. But for theasslgning to each of them a place
on the same plain , no Geometrick rule is yet in-
vented.

CHAP. XXV.
A Rational Demonftration of chirommtkal
Signatures • Added by way of Appendix
to Chap. V. os this 'Book.
I "IP He foundation of Chiromancy depends upon
■ JL the true appropriation of the several mounts,
fingers, or places in the hand, to their proper Stars or
Planets. •
II. The Ancients have assigned the root of the
middle finger to Saturn \ of the fore-finger to Jupiter:
the hollow of the hand to Mars', the root of the
i'ing-finger to Sol: of the thumb to Venus: of the
little ringer to Mercury: and Mly, the brawn of the
hand near the wrist to Luna. ■'''■) "
i III. That line which eomes round the ball of th^
'at, i ftu-t i.--.-, #tv<$j ' • -'• thumb