The harmony of the world :
being a discourse of God, heaven, angels, stars, planets, earth, the miraculous descentions and ascentions of spirits : with the nature and harmony of mans body, the art of preparing Rosie Crucian medicines to cure all diseases : their rules to raise bodies decayed, which are verified by a practical examination of principles in the great world : whereunto is added, the state of the New Jerusalem, grounded upon the knowledge of nature, light of reason, phylosophy and divinity : all fitted to the understanding, use and profit of wisdomes children, and communicated to the sons of art /
by John Heydon, ... a servant of God and secretary of nature.

Description

Main Author

Heydon, John, b. 1629.

Related Names

Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for Robert Horn, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1662.

Subjects

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric > Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric / Early works to 1800.
Rosicrucians > Rosicrucians / Early works to 1800.
Occultism > Occultism / Early works to 1900.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / England > Woodcuts / England / 17th century.
Engravings > Engravings / England > Engravings / England / 17th century.

Note

Frontispiece is engraved port. of author, signed in the plate: T. Cross Sculpsit. Also, woodcut diagrams, including author's horoscope at p. 98.

Physical Description

[78] (the last 3 blank), 257, [7] (the last blank) p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 16 cm. (8vo)

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