Unheard-of Curiosities/10

by Jacques Gaffarel

the contents.

1. The Holiest things are often mixt with Fables.
2. The strange Fancies, and Falshoods of Duret, touching the Spirits of the Planets ; and touching the Astrologicall Cabale of the Jewes.
3. The Fooleries of Carlo Fabri, in his assigning of the Angels, proper to the Seven Electors of the Empire.
4. The Strange Doctrine of Riccius, and Kunrath, concerning the Planetary Zephirots.
5. The Stars, the cause of the diversities in Religion, in the opinion of R. Chomer.
6. The Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ, erected by Bechai, and Cardan.
7. The Astrologicall Pictures, or Figures, at the Conjunctions of the Celestiall Signes, falsly attributed to the Ægyptians, and Arabians, what they were ; and by whom invented : against Scaliger.