The contemplation of mankinde
contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.
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Author
Contributions
- Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca, 1467-1504. - Contributor
- Malampus, 3rd cent. B.C. - Contributor
Publication
By [Henry Denham for] William Seres, dwelling at the west ende of Paules Church, at the signe of the Hedgehogge], [Imprinted at London, England
Language
English
Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Physical Format
Microform
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18467475M
Alternate Titles
- Pleasaunt discourse of phisiognomie.
- Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis.
- Peri elaiōn sōmatos. English.
Subjects
People
Genres
- Early works to 1800
Series Statement
- Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 287:7.
- Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 511:4.
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