Yıldızların Vaadi ile Mizacın Gerçeği

But what they attribute to the stars—by which they say each one of us is set free, and from which the grace of form, manners, and fortune follows—we say arises from the qualities. For a warm and moist quality commands it, just as it does the airy and the sanguine; and those who obtain such a temperament also attain a similar form and manners, as has been discussed quite clearly in our Human Physiognomy. I omit that if the manners and forms of men are investigated, and from what they are formed, their fallacy is most clearly refuted: for in the maternal womb, the fetus is conceived from the quality of the parents' blood, which precedes the seed, and after forty days the spirit arrives, and the man will obtain such manners as the temperament of the embryo bestows. What, therefore, has the hour of birth to do with the fetus if the manners were contracted almost eight months earlier? And because that time is unknown, they prattle on about I know not what analogy and agreement between the fall of the seed and the exit from the maternal womb, when no affinity intervenes between these times. We have added, moreover, a not useless doctrine on how astrologers, what they have learned over long courses of time and through various experiments, could learn at a single glance by lifting their eyes to the sky and contemplating the stars: for they are clearly recognized from their physiognomy, color, motion, quantity, beauty, and deformity. The Jovian and Venereal star, coruscating with a very pleasant and joyful brightness, excels so much in celestial clarity that it marks a certain majesty of nature; it promises very similar effects, makes men graceful and august, and grants a glorious life.