Christopher Cattan

Christophe de Cattan (also Christofe Cattan, Christopher Cattan) was a reputed astrologer of the sixteenth century. The title page of one of his books gives him as Swiss, from Geneva.^[1]

He is known in connection with geomancy, through the 1558 La geomancie du seigneur Christofe de Cattan.[1] As The geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman this was successful also in a 1591 English translation, by Francis Sparry.[2]

Notes

1. ^ La géomancie du Signeur ChristofeCattan, Gentilhomme genevois: Livre non moins plaisant et récréatif, que d’ingénieuse invention, pour sçavoir toutes choses présentes, passées et advenir, avec la Roue de Pythagoras (1572).

External links

• Geomance de Cattan, online text
• Wim van Binsbergen, The Astrological Origin of Islamic geomancy (PDF) cf. note 46, p. 20

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