Philip Moore (Moore)( English physician and astrologer of the third quarter of the XVI century)
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Biography Philip Moore (Moore)
A medical practitioner, a physician and surgeon in Helesuorte, Suffolk. M. actively engaged in medical astrology and herbal. It aimed to disseminate knowledge about the properties of medicinal herbs among the poor folk and contribute to the cultivation of herbs. M. - Author of "The Hope of Health" with tables for 30 years (1565), as well as the popular astrological almanacs with predictions up to 1606 g. (1-ed. 1567, pereizd. in 1570 and 1573 gg.).
Selected works: The Hope of Health. With a Table for XXX. yeres to come. - London, 1565. A fourtie yeres Almanacke, with a Prognostication ... from the yere.. 1567. vntill the yere ... 1606. - London, 1567. An Almanack and Prognostication for XXXIII yeares. - London, 1573. Literature: 1. Dictionary of National Biography. 2. Johnson FR. Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England.
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