Partridge, John ‘Defectio Geniturarum: being an Essay toward the Reviving and Proving the True Old Principles of Astrology, Hitherto Neglected, Or, at leastwise, not Observed or Understood. In Four Parts. The First shewing the Ground and Cause of Error. The Second contains an Examination of those Nativities Printed by Morinus. The Third considers those done by Argol. And, The Fourth those Printed by Mr. Gadbury, in his Collection. Wherein Many things relating to this Science are Handled and Discoursed: But the principal End and Design of the Book is to prove the Power and sole Use Of the Hileg, in Cases of Life and Death’ Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleet Street, London, 1697.

Part of a cloth vol.. [1 leaf] + [22] + 330 + [p. 133 (2)] + [pp. 332-360]

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Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing purchased from an American antiquarian bookseller in the 2000s

Late 17th century English astrologer John Partridge’s Defectio Geniturarum (1697) was his final major astrological work and is a critical study of approaches to natal astrology, with close examination of the methods used by Jean-Baptiste Morin, Andrea Argoli and John Gadbury in particular