CARDAN'S NATIVITY. 



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Cardan's Milanese friend and patron, Filippo Archinto. 

 So far as it is a supplement to the almanac, it contains 

 various useful directions, sucli as how to find the pole, to 

 recognise planets at sight, and so forth, with some useless 

 matter, then accounted precious, of an astrological descrip- 

 tion. The nativities are very curious. Among them are 

 the horoscopes each with an exposition of Petrarca, of 

 Luther, of the Emperor Charles V, and of King Francis I, 

 of Fazio Cardan, of Jerome himself, of his friend Ar- 

 chinto, and his other patrons; of Venice, from the date of 

 its establishment, and, in the same way, of Florence and 

 Bologna. The horoscope of Jerome himself I append 

 for the benefit of any person who is able to understand 

 such mysteries, or may have a desire to see in what fashion 

 these things were drawn. 



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