Britannia Baconia, or the Natural Rarities of England Scotland & Wales According as they are to be Found in Every Shire

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British Counties historically explained. In modern brown morocco, gilt edge tooling, gilt tooling to spine with gilt titles to a red calf label. Internally, [12], [18], 184 pp, 1 small woodcut plan (p72), lacks the first blank leaf, old paper repair along edge of title page, some light browning & spotting, small worming at the foot, marbled endpapers, evidence of label removal to fep. A Very Good example. The first edition had been issued in 1660. (164*101 mm). (Wing C.3871. ESTC R25345. Lowndes 406). Title continues: historically related, according to the precepts of the Lord Bacon, methodically digested, and the causes of many of them philosophically attempted. With Observations upon them, and Deductions from them, whereby divers Secrets in Nature are discovered, and somethings hitherto reckoned Prodigies, are fain to confess the cause whence they proceed. Useful for all the ingenious men of what Profession or Quality soever. Childrey, (Joshua, antiquary and astrologer. Indago astrologica, or, A Brief and Modest Enquiry into some Principal Points of Astrology (1652) was his contribution to the contemporary attempt to reform astrology along Baconian lines, which also included efforts by John Goad and John Gadbury. His prescription was to correlate terrestrial events with the mutual aspects of the planets calculated heliocentrically (rather than geocentrically, as was more common), along with their apogee and perigee, upper and lower culmination, and rising and setting.! For a full biography see ODNB)