Then Milo laughed and said, Verily we nourish a Sybel Prophesier, which by the view of a candle doth divine of Celestiall things, and of the Sunne it selfe.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
Part of this profound and diuine Science, had Ioachim the Prophesier atteyned vnto: by Numbers Formall, Naturall, and Rationall, forseyng, concludyng, and forshewyng great particular euents, long before their comming.
"The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara"
John Dee