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This book explores the notebooks of S. Belle, an astrologer who lived in late fifteenth-century France, as a case study of late medieval astrological practice. These notebooks combine astrological doctrine, a large collection of horoscopes, an almanac, and three complete judgements of nativities. By studying Belle’s methods, processes of learning, and practices, this book contributes to a better understanding of the internal architecture of astrology in the pre-modern world; this includes its techniques, methodologies, goals, transmission, and development throughout history. It offers an internalist view of the practice of astrology, as a counterpart to the existing research into astrology’s social and cultural impact.

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- Medieval History, History of Science, History of Astrology, Medieval France

Sul profilo biografico di Cecco d'Ascoli, al secolo Francesco Stabili, gravano secoli di leggenda che si è frammista alla storia. Le scarse notizie sulla sua formazione, la rapida e fortunata carriera universitaria, i processi inquisitoriali e la tragica fine sul rogo a Firenze hanno alimentato una pluralità di notizie a suo carico che devono fare i conti con le fonti storiche. Il presente lavoro tenta innanzi tutto di chiarire quali siano queste fonti e, quindi, di tracciare un profilo biografico attendibile.
Nel secondo capitolo, invece, viene analizzata quella che per diverse ragioni può essere ritenuta come l'opera più rappresentativa dell'autore: il Commento alla Sfera del Sacrobosco. La lettura del manuale di astronomia più diffuso del medioevo, diviene nel corso stabiliano occasione per intrecciare astrologia, negromanzia e magia.
L'ultima parte dell'elaborato, infine, è più ricca di domande che di risposte. Dopo aver analizzato in chiave diacronica e sincronica il contesto dello studium bolognese, vengono espresse alcune suggestioni in merito alle problematiche poetico-letterarie e alcuni indirizzi di ricerca futuri sulle questioni stabiliane.

- by Luca Pieroni
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- Medieval Literature, Medieval Studies, History of Science, Astrology

Powerpoint Presentation briefly presenting the system of Hellenistic astrology

- by George Saad
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- Astrology, History of Astrology, Hellenistic astrology, Ancient astrology
- by Adrian C . Pirtea
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- History of Astrology, Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Manichaeism

More than any other object of historical and anthropological study, Islamicate occult science cuts to the quick of what it means to be modern, to be Western, to be scientific. Yet nowhere else are 19th-century colonialist metaphysics and materialist cosmology more firmly entrenched. The piecemeal, truncated study of “Magic in Islam” to date has thus of-ten been pursued in service of either scientistic or religionist agendas, whereby magic can only ever be failed science or apolitical religion, and Islam can never be the West; Islamic Magic as simply Western and often imperial Science-and-Religion is thereby utterly disappeared from historiographical purview. And even those Islamicist historians of science and historians of religion who eschew ideology in favor of rigorously empirical philology, the majority, have tended to favor outsider, polemical discourses over insider, practitioner ones, and “classical” sources over “postclassical,” resulting in bizarre historiographical distortions and the disenchanting sanitization of Islamicate societies past and present. This manifesto therefore proposes a way out of this dire epistemological and ethical bind. To re-store Islamic Magic to its rightful place in Western intellectual and cultural history, especially history of science, we must take far more seriously the panpsychist cosmology on which it is predicated, and realize that our own reflexive materialism commits us willynilly to a colonialist agenda that is, ironically, both antireligious and antiscientific.

- by Matthew Melvin-Koushki
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- History of Science, Astrology, Alchemy, Magic

The present paper investigates the contributions of the astrological author Julianus of Laodicea. The authenticity of a work ascribed to him is re-examined, the genuine fragments are collected and evaluated, and possible further traces of his work in later literature are explored to correct and update his scholarly image. In an appendix,
a critical edition of F18 is offered.

- by Levente László
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- History of Astrology, Textual criticism (Classics)

The most popular visitor attraction in the Egyptian Antiquities department in the Louvre is the sandstone ceiling with bas-relief of a sky-map from Dendara temple. The 2.5 m ≈ 2.5 m artefact is dated to the 1 st century BC by Neugebauer and Parker (1969) who also claimed, albeit with sketchy discussion on the matter, that the planets shown are merely placements in their zodiacal sign of astrological 'exaltation'. Upon our investigation, this postulation is not fully supported. Aubourg (1995) who does not comment on the assumption of 'exaltations', interprets two particular symbols as depictions of a solar and lunar eclipse in the years 52 and 51 BC, and hypothesises that the planets are at their last stationary point prior to his deduced date for the summer of 51 BC. However these portrayals are otherwise unprecedented in sacred art. Therefore such conclusions seem dubious, both in historic context and to the received wisdom of the nature of celestial ideology in which Egyptian temple priests were normally steeped, and who incidentally, were the only ones with access to the roof-top sanctuary chamber where the zodiac ceiling was secreted. This paper will attempt to unravel more intrinsic, political and practical meaning behind the commissioning of the Dendara zodiac. A re-appraisal of the content incidentally shows astronomical viability for the Sun, Moon and five planets, indicating a date late in the reign of the then Pharaoh of Egypt, Caesar Augustus. And this is suggestive of a more than likely horoscope present amongst the constellations. In his 2 nd century AD biography of Augustus, Suetonius tells how the youthful Octavian had consulted with a Greek astrologer Theogenes and been told of his powerful destiny. This serves to remind us how astrology, and particularly, horoscopes of destiny such as the Dendara zodiac might turn out to be, had taken hold throughout the Roman Empire, in which Egypt was a major player.

- by Roz Park and +1
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- History of Astrology, Ptolemaic Egyptian History, Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
- by Matthew Melvin-Koushki and +1
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- Intellectual History, Ottoman History, Material Culture Studies, Renaissance Studies

ТОЛЬКО ОЗНАКОМИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ФРАГМЕНТ, электронная версия не распространяется. Роджер Бэкон: алхимия, астрология, магия и медицина (сборник) / М. М. Пэттисон Мьюр, Г. С. Редгроув, Л. Торндайк, Э. Т. Уитингтон, Г. У. Л. Хайм / Пер. с англ. и... more

- by Boris Dvinyaninov
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- Astrology, Alchemy, Magic, Medical Astrology
- by DONATO VERARDI
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- Renaissance Studies, History of Astrology, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso

This is an advertisement for a graduate position at the Ptolemaeus project in Munich.

This study surveys the introduction of astrology into East Asia with a primary focus on the Buddhist experience of Indian and Iranian astrology during the eighth and ninth centuries. It is argued that prior to the introduction of Esoteric Buddhism during the 8th century, the Chinese sangha had no pressing need to observe astrology. However, following the rising popularity of Tantric rituals, which require proper timing according to non-Chinese astrological conventions, Chinese Buddhism took a deep interest in astrology. This in turn prompted a wider interest in astrology among Chinese elites, encouraging the translation of more foreign works on astrology, even outside of a Buddhist context. It is shown that around the year 800 there was a shift from Indian to Iranian sources of astrology, most likely as a result of ethnic Iranians working at court. Iranian astrology, which included a rich system of horoscopy rooted in the earlier Hellenistic tradition, prompted a booming popular interest in astrology. Buddhists subsequently took up practice of horoscopy for themselves. Chinese Buddhist astrology was then exported to neighboring countries, most notably Japan where it influenced medieval religious and court cultures.

- by Jeffrey Kotyk
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- Buddhism, History of Religion, Daoism, Sinology

The pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica (hereafter PsAH) are a group of texts surviving in Arabic that claim to record conversations between Aristotle and Alexander the Great. In these conversations, Aristotle instructs Alexander about the cosmos, the comingto-be of everything in it, and astral magic-more precisely, talismanry, rituals for attracting the spiritual and planetary forces of the cosmos, the creation of amulets, and extensive astrological rules. The purpose of the instruction is to support Alexander's military career and personal life. Aristotle claims to have received this knowledge from Hermes Trismegistus. There are very few studies dedicated to these fascinating and influential texts; therefore, this article offers a preliminary study of the PsAH that introduces the texts and their contexts systematically.

- by Liana Saif
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- Aristotle, Medieval Studies, Zoroastrianism, Magic

Eski Mezopotamya'daki inanışa göre tanrılar insanlar hakkındaki düşüncelerini çeşitli
yollardan mesajlar göndererek bildiriyorlardı. Gök olayları tanrı mesajlarını
okumak için birer işaret olarak görülerek incelenip yorumlanmış ve geleceğe dair
astrolojik kehanetlerde bulunulmuştur. Kehanetlere göre, eğer gökyüzünde olumlu
bir işaret görülmüş ise, yeryüzünde de olumlu bir gelişme meydana gelecektir. Tam
tersine gökyüzünde görülen olumsuz bir işaret de yeryüzünde meydana gelecek
olumsuz olayların bir habercisidir. Kehanetlerden anlaşıldığına göre gök cisimlerinin
her birisinin yeryüzüne etkileri farklıdır. Bununla birlikte mana bakımından
olumlu veya olumsuz göksel fenomenlerin birbirleri ile kombinasyonları belirli bir
mantık çerçevesinde yorumlanmıştır. Gökte meydana gelen değişken durumlar kehanetlere
konu olmuştur. Bu değişkenlerden bazıları: Gök cisimlerinin parlak veya
sönük olmaları, renkleri, birbirlerine yaklaşıp uzaklaşmaları, Ay ve güneş tutulmaları
ile fırtına gibi meteorolojik olaylardır. M.Ö. I. Binyıl ortalarına kadar astrolojik
kehanetler krallar ve ülke için iken, bu devirden sonra sıradan kişiler için de astrolojik
kehanetlerde bulunulmuştur. Astrologlar saraya bağlı olarak görev yapmışlar,
saray tarafından maddi olarak desteklenip saygı görmüşlerdir.
Anahtar kelimeler: Astroloji, Enuma Anu Enlil,, Yıldız falı.

- by Ahmet Selim Baysal
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- Assyriology, History of Astrology, Sumerian, Akkadian
- by Marcha Fox
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- Art, Astrology, History of Astrology, Strasbourg Cathedral

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- by Chetan Shastri
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- Astrology, History of Astrology

Dans l'expression Astrologie : « science des astres » il y a… 3 mots qui posent problème : « science », « des » et « astres » ! Ce sera le fil conducteur pour une analyse critique en profondeur de l'astrologie, qui plus est rénovée par l'EX-astrologue que je suis.
Ce tome 1 est donc une introduction à cette nouvelle analyse d'une discipline dont on sous-estime souvent la complexité. Signe "d'une grande richesse" pour l'astrologue, elle constitue pour moi le terreau idéal pour les biais cognitifs. La raison première, peut-être, pour laquelle l'astrologie a pu si aisément traverser les siècles.
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4e de couverture :
Il y a 12 ans, assistant aux désaccords profonds entre ses collègues, un jeune astrologue commence à s’interroger sur la question de l’erreur. Il débute une autocritique et se confronte aux sceptiques. Cet essai est le témoignage d’un homme sur son long parcours de déconversion. C’est aussi l’introduction à une analyse critique rénovée et sereine de l’astrologie qui ouvre à des problématiques plus fécondes.
Pourquoi les astrologues ne se réfèrent-ils pas aux positions des planètes réellement observées sur la voûte céleste ? Pourquoi conservent-ils certains astres qui n’existent plus ? Pourquoi les interprétations « marchent-elles » quand le praticien se trompe de date de naissance ?! L’outil astrologique (complexe et sacré) dupe-t-il ses utilisateurs de générations en générations ? Le zodiaque mésopotamien a-t-il, d’ailleurs, été créé par des astrologues ? Est-il vraiment né dans le ciel ?!
Et quel est l’énorme coup de chance qui permit aux horoscopes d’intégrer la presse, il y a juste 80 ans, avant d’inonder littéralement toute la planète ?
Le brainstorming, enfin, peut-il expliquer succès, échecs et longévité de l’astrologie sans prétexte scientifique ni métaphysique ?
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Membre du bureau de l’Observatoire Zététique et ex-astrologue de la Fédération Des Astrologues Francophones, Serge BRET-MOREL a développé une expertise unique. Dans ses conférences et publications, il met un point d’honneur à décrire avec pédagogie les questions déroutantes posées à, et par, l’astrologie.
Plus d’informations : www.astroscept.com

- by Serge Bret-Morel
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- History of Science, Astrology, History of Astrology, Skepticism

The International Conference The Impact of Arabic Sources on Divination and the
Practical Sciences in Europe and Asia was held in Erlangen (2014 January 21-23) at
the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, in collaboration
with the Union Académique Internationale/International Union of Academies,
the Académie des sciences du monde islamique (Amman), the Centre for the
History of Arabic Studies in Europe (Warburg Institute, London) and Micrologus
(SISMEL, Florence)

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https://doi.org/10.33929/sherm.2020.vol2.no1.10
While the Torah instructs Jews not to practice soothsaying or divination, the Talmud includes several discussions about the power of astrology with many Rabbis even arguing that the use of astrology is both permitted and meaningful. Add to this discrepancy the numerous astrological mosaics on the floors of ancient synagogues, as well as certain Kabbalistic practices, and it becomes clear why there is confusion within the Jewish community. This article examines Jewish perspectives on evolutionary astrology throughout Jewish history and its link to current mystical applications.

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- Talmud, Jewish Mysticism, Astrology, History of Astrology

Cyclone Burevi was media hyped to reach India as a cyclonic storm and cross the southern districts of Tamilnadu and Kerala and move into the Arabian sea on 3rd,4th of December as per earlier weather forecasts.But suddenly on 3rd December evening the cyclone weakened into a deep depression and lay in the Gulf of Mannar , baffling weather forecast experts and making forecasts of its advance go haywire. This calls for strengthening of the weather/cyclone prediction models with additional right data inputs as explained in this article.

- by vijaya bhaarati
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- Climate Change, Climatology, Astrology, Jyotisha/Indian Astrology

Astronomia e astrologia tra Vita Nova e Convivio: prime ricognizioni

- by Anna Gabriella Chisena
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- Dante Studies, Italian Studies, Italian Literature, History of Astrology

Il volume è il risultato di una ricerca sull’atteggiamento di medici e filosofi di fronte alla peste, dalle prime reazioni nel ‘300 fino al maturo ‘400, con particolare attenzione all’umanesimo fiorentino e alla figura di Marsilio Ficino. Si è voluto mostrare come l’avvento del morbo abbia profondamente inciso sulla produzione della letteratura filosofica, accelerando l’osmosi tra i saperi e le tendenze culturali, calamitando l’attenzione di molti sull’urgenza medica. La trattazione si concentra sulle opere di Marsilio Ficino, soprattutto sul Consilio contro la pestilentia, pubblicato per la prima volta a Firenze nel 1481 e da allora testo di riferimento per la tradizione posteriore. Attraverso l’analisi delle fonti e della fortuna di quest’opera si possono rileggere le questioni fondamentali che sono al centro della letteratura medico-filosofica contro la peste. In Appendice si presenta un’edizione accompagnata da alcune annotazioni critiche, con un Glossario essenziale di termini notevoli.

- by Teodoro Katinis
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- Languages, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Philosophy
- by Dror Weil
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- Translation Studies, Persian Literature, Chinese Studies, History of Science

This one is pretty self-explanatory.

This paper introduces a hexagonal-based measurement apparatus. The experiment culminates in a quantum object production. The experiment testing quantum wave collapse was inaugurated under Covid19 quarantine. Leong Yijing methodology informed the production of the measurement. The apparatus uses the logic of Chance, applying it to produced social media phenomenology commemorating the 83rd solar return of Wolfgang Pauli's prophetic dream. In keeping with the predictive timing within the dream, the throw of coins outcome was confirmed by the biorhythms of the cosmos: the wave collapse taking place on the 24th anniversary of the January 23, 1997 Seal of Solomon alignment between Heaven & Earth. This repetition of cyclic timing reflects the physicist's vision of the hexagonal structure of the hieros gamos icon arising from under the wave collapse. This birth of the Third produces an ontology of the quantum object and an understanding of the autonomy of number as unifying energy and matter.

- by International Journal of Recent advances in Physics (IJRAP) and +1
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- Quantum Physics, Astrology, Medical Astrology, History of Astrology

I wrote this for a pop history magazine, but alas they didn't want it.

This is an extended abstract of my full paper appeared as “The Ptolemaic concept of the Ruler (al-Mustawlī) Planet in Ibn ‘Azzūz’s astrological writing” in Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences. International Archive of the... more

Historic annual prognostications published by Renaissance scientists Thomas Digges, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, and “farmers” almanacs published in Europe and New England, contained weather forecasts based on geocentric planetary configurations. The syzygy between the Sun and Saturn, in this tradition thought to produce cold weather, is here tested using daily surface temperature records. A daily time-series from Central Massachusetts from 1971-2000 shows lower temperatures within one day before the geocentric Sun-Saturn opposition with more extreme departures when the opposition occurred near the equinoxes, when Saturn was at perigee, and when the Moon was an addition to the syzygy. The “Saturn effect” was found in other Northeastern US datasets including one of 120 years from Amherst, MA. Two other long daily temperature datasets, Central England and Prague, and also other datasets from temperate to subarctic latitudes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres were examined, and in most cases similar results were found. Significant decreases in temperature within one day of the exact opposition occurred more frequently when the opposition was near the equinoxes or when the Sun and Saturn shared the same declination. These observations lead to a hypothesis: a gravitational resonance between the Sun and Saturn slightly increases atmospheric tides. When the opposition is near the equinoxes the gravitational forces are orthogonal to the surface at the equator and parallel to the surface at the poles; the consequence is atmospheric compression at the poles with movement of cold air southward. Anecdotal evidence of correlations between the Sun-Saturn syzygy and air mass movements are observable in daily climatic surface maps.

- by Bruce Scofield
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- Climate Change, Atmospheric Science, Climatology, Meteorology
- by Jeanette C. Fincke
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- Assyriology, Divination, History of Science, History of Astronomy

Two volumes & slightly more than 1350 two columns pages edited in 2010 by Paola Colace (Univ. Messina, editor-in-chief), S.M. Medaglia (Univ. Salerno), L. Rossetti (Univ. Perugia), S. Sconocchia (Univ. Trieste). A special role was played by E. Lelli (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza").
Among the qualifying features of this Dizionario:
-- the choice to consider a very wide range of specializations,
-- a systematic exploitment of the handbooks authored in the late antiquity.
NB/ Some of the entries authored by L. Rossetti are presently available as individual papers above (papers, year 2010).

- by rita gianfelice and +2
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- History of Mathematics, History of Medicine, Ancient Science, History of Astronomy

In 1805, Goethe identified the plant held by Albrecht Dürer in his Self Portrait of 1493 as an Eryngium. For the last two hundred years, debates surrounding the occasion for the portrait and the meaning of its inscription have been based on different German names for the Latin Eryngium. Yet Goethe’s identification of plant (and Panofsky’s after him) was based on a correction to its classification that postdates Dürer’s painting. The plant that Dürer holds would in fact have been known in his time by the name Aster Atticus or Sternkraut. Restoring to the plant its fifteenth-century nomenclature reveals a correspondence between the plant and the rhymed couplet at the top of the painting, both of which allude to the stars. The proper context for understanding the painting thus points less to an amorous association with “luck in love,” as Panofsky would have it, and more to the late-medieval search for astrological correlations between the patterns in the heavens and the events on earth.

Four stars in the night sky have been formally recognised by their Australian Aboriginal names. The names include three from the Wardaman people of the Northern Territory and one from the Boorong people of western Victoria. The Wardaman star names are Larawag, Wurren and Ginan in the Western constellations Scorpius, Phoenix and Crux (the Southern Cross). The Boorong star name is Unurgunite in Canis Majoris (the Great Dog). They are among 86 new star names drawn from Chinese, Coptic, Hindu, Mayan, Polynesian, South African, and Aboriginal Australian cultures.

- by Duane Hamacher
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- History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Ethnohistory

A good question for ‘integrated history and philosophy of science’ is that of what other philosophical disciplines and intellectual traditions we ought to integrate with. Few historians and philosophers pursued this question more vigorously than Paul Feyerabend, even if his own efforts lapsed, at times, into excess. In this talk, I engage with the ‘limits of integration’ theme by asking why Feyerabend ‘defended’ astrology – and what, if anything, contemporary practitioners of ‘integrated history and philosophy of science’ might learn from it. Two common explanations of the purpose of those defences are rejected as lacking textual support. A third ‘pluralist’ reading is judged more persuasive, but found to be incomplete, owing to a failure to accommodate Feyerabend’s focus upon the integrity and characters of scientists. I therefore suggest that the defences are more fully understood as defences of the epistemic integrity of scientists that take the form of critical exposures of failures by scientists to act with integrity. An appeal is made to contemporary virtue epistemology that clarifies Feyerabend’s implicit association of epistemic integrity and epistemic virtue. If so, what he was defending was science, not astrology. I end with two claims. The first is that, read in this way, Feyerabend is more conservative and less radical than people often suppose. The second is that it would be very useful to further integrate history and philosophy of science with virtue epistemology – as Feyerabend, forty years ago, tried to do. Doing so would helpfully line up a range of issues of interest to integrated HPS – scientific practice, pluralism, epistemic virtues – and open up new ways of understanding science.

Based on the extensive historical data over the past 3000 years, the Clock of Phoenix [1, 4] shows that in the end of every long-term cycle (with periodicity of approximately 493 years) the world of ideas comes to its critical junction of disruption, so-called "Hour of Phoenix." The generations of passionate thinkers, poets and explorers born during these radical periods of transition (ranging in our epoch from 15 to 30 years) are motivated by an urgent need for new paradigms to be introduced and for new social structures to be built. In particular, the proposed model of the Clock of Phoenix is successfully applied to historical periods of the history of astrology.

- by Elizabetha Levin
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- Astrology, Metaphysics of Time, History of Astronomy, History of Astrology

[Keywords: assyriology, Mesopotamia, cuneiform, review, astronomy, astrology, neo-assyrian]

- by Lorenzo Verderame
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- Assyriology, Divination, History of Science, Astrology

 Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), a pre-Raphaelite painter, was fascinated with astronomy, as noted in his memorials and accounts. In 1879, he executed cartoon drawings for a cycle on nine planets for the artisans of the William Morris Firm, who would transform them into stained-glass panels. The commission was for the decoration of Woodlands, the Victorian mansion of Baron Angus Holden (1833-1912), a major of Bradford. Presently, seven of the cartoons-The Moon (Luna), Earth (Terra), Sol (Apollo), Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Evening Star-are in the Torre Abbey Museum in Torquay, UK, while the cartoon for Mars is part of the collection of drawings at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK, and the cartoon for Morning Star is located at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, UK. In the creation of the Planets cycle, Burne-Jones was inspired by cultural events of the time such as British scientific astronomical discoveries and British and Italian humanistic sources in literature and visual arts portraying astronomy. This essay art historically and iconographically examines the nine planets as celestial and terrestrial formations and astral spheres of good omen. It is composed of three sections. The first section discusses the history of the artistic commission; the second analyzes the stylistic and iconographical aspects of the Planets cycle; and the third section explains some of Burne-Jones's cultural sources for the Planets cycle as manifestations of seasonal transformations, heavenly and terrestrial realms, musical spheres, and visions of a benevolent cosmos.

- by Liana Cheney
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- Mythology, Symbolism, Emblem studies, History of Astrology

La prima traduzione italiana integrale del trattato Astrologia Cristiana di William Lilly, comparso a Londra nel 1647 e subito diventato opera di riferimento fondamentale per la storia e la pratica dell’astrologia oraria. In questo volume, il secondo della serie, le domande relative alle prime sei case, che comprendono argomenti quali: la durata della vita, la datazione degli eventi, l'aspetto fisico delle persone, il ritrovamento e il destino di persone scomparse, la sicurezza in viaggio, la ricchezza e la fortuna, fratelli e sorelle, trasferimenti e spostamenti, voci e dicerie, oggetti smarriti, tesori nascosti, proprietà, terreni e coltivazioni, compravendita di immobili, eredità familiari e rapporti con i genitori, fertilità e sterilità, gravidanza e figli, ambasciatori e messaggeri, servitù e altro ancora. Del massimo interesse la sezione molto dettagliata e consistente dedicata alle domande sulla salute e alle carte di decubito, alla diagnosi e alla prognosi delle malattie, alle terapie e ai medicamenti.
Seguono tre saggi di Patrizia Nava sulle origini storiche della pratica oraria in epoca ellenistica, sul metodo di analisi di Lilly e sul suo debito, pienamente riconosciuto dall’autore stesso, nei confronti di un altro grande medico-astrologo del XVI secolo, Claude Dariot.

- by Patrizia Nava
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- Early Modern History, History of Medicine, Renaissance Studies, Astrology