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can be found in Arabic manuscripts. Robert Fludd called geomancy "terrestrial astrology" and, accordingly, some authors fit geomantic charts into astrological patterns, thereby deliberately abandoning some of the traditional correspondencies in astrology. The appendix gives the attributions by various authors, and even more importantly, the names and significations of the sixteen figures in Arabic traditions, Kordofan (Sudan), Greek (derived from Arabic), Latin such as the twelfth-century Hugh of Santafalla, Hebrew, Berber, three Madagascar regions, and six West African regions. The chief merit of this book is that it has brought together versions of geomancy described in various eastern and western cultures, studied separately but never compared before. It is a pity that the Wellcome manuscripts 10 (Gerard of Cremona's 'Geomantiae astronomicae' in Agrippa von Nettesheim's works), 394 (Phillippus von Schlammersdorf Knodius), and 531 ('Geomantia edita a magistro Gerardo Cremonensi') have not been used and are not listed. All in all, this is a very informative book on a little-known subject. Marianne Winder Wellcome Institute