Astronomer
LIX. He beareth on a Ground Plot, or Mount in Base an Astronomer in his short Gown, Cap (or Bonnet) Hose and Shooes; holding up a Quadrant in his right hand, and a Jacobs Staff in the left. This is either termed an Astronomer or an Astrologer, both Sciences taking notice of the motions and effects of the Stars, and Heavenly Constellations.
Related text(s) Astronomy Geometry Measuring Land Arithmetic Philosophy
Untranscribed item(s) Days in the month (A Rule to know how many days each Month hath, and the Moveable Feasts); Sabbath (How the Sundays or Sabbath days are reckoned throughout the Year); Moveable feasts (To know the Moveable Feasts in the Year ); Kings reigns; Dominical letter use (A way to find what day of the Month every first Sabbath day is, by two Verses, knowing the Dominical Letter); Geometrical term (Geometrical Terms for their Plots, Figures, with their particular Compositions or Lines); Philosophers
Painter
LX. He beareth a Limner (or a Picture
Drawer, or a Painter working at his Easill, set on
a Stool, with his Pallet on his left hand.
Painting is an Art so much imitating Nature, that by proportional Lines with answerable Colours it represents to the Life the form of all Corporeal things; it is called in Latine Pictura, and in English Painting and Limning. It consists in a sevenfold practice, as in Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing and Colouring; but principally the whole Art lyeth in these three things, viz. Design, Proportion and Colour; all which are expressed in three sorts of Painting, as Landskip, History and Life.
Related text(s) Painter's equipment Painter's terms Engraving Engraver's equipment & terms Etching Etcher's equipment & terms Glass Painting Glass painter's equipment Glass painter's terms Inventors Painters Mascy Tinter
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