In Medieval Latin the word “medicamentum simplex” was a single herb used as a medicament while several herbs used together were called a “medicamentum compositum. “ From this Medieval abbeys gardens and later universities gardens where herbs were cultivated for study and medical use were called “Hortus Simplicium“, gardens of simple (medicaments).
October 1, 2009
In the previous days we could read about two deadly earthquakes and the tsunami which shook Indonesia in Asia and American Samoa Islands almost in the same moment, and unfortunately victims could be more than 1000. Scientists and experts of earthquakes deny that there could be a link between the two events. But this is true [...]
September 24, 2009
I see from the net that the first chapter of Seven Segments “”translated” by Anton Grigoryev and Valeria Livina is ready for download in Anton’s site, so I’m obliged again to spend some words about Anton Grigoryev, a “man” who makes his name of astrologer copying and paste others’ work.
September 19, 2009
Ancients believed that planets moved according fixed ratios as musical notes do: the pure mute music planets emitted was called “music of the spheres”. Plato mentions the music of the spheres in the last book of the Republic, when he talks about Er, when he describes Ananke’s spindle. Each of the sirens of the eight circles [...]
September 13, 2009
Since the Antiquity astrology (and prediction) was based on astronomical tables generally divided into three different parts collected together: tables of primum mobile, tables of planetary positions, eclipses; at the beginning of the Renaissance tables of primum mobile were separated from the rest: the most famous of all Regiomontanus’ ones, which the author called “Tables [...]
September 7, 2009
Having explained signs of illness in solar return, Argoli explains in his De Diebus Criticis how to judge illness from decumbiture, ie. the chart for the moment of the illness. In these pages Argoli who studied medicine before becoming a lecturer of mathematics in La Sapienza (in the very University the gentle author of this article [...]
August 29, 2009
Andrea Argoli, born in Tagliacozzo in 1570 is very famous for his book about primary directions, the Tables of the primum mobile, (from which I took the picture ) 1. The following is my translation from Latin from another of Argoli’s main works, Two books about critical days and decumbiture of diseases2 revised and revisited by [...]
August 23, 2009
Love illness is currently understood like a venereal disease, but this is not its traditional meaning, which is was on the other hand well known from Galen to Renaissance and more, till the theory of four humors was rejected, and it was called amor hereos. Amor hereos or love sickness is the idea that one cannot [...]
August 6, 2009
I’ve just finished reading Martin Gansten’s book about primary directions, and I liked very much. So I believe it’s the opportunity to give some examples about primary directions using Morinus software, especially because here in Italy we don’t use Kolev formulae- better said, we use them but put in another way.
July 31, 2009
Surely the most popular chapter from Ptolemy’s Quadripartite is the chapter about the duration of life, 1 where Ptolemy explains primary directions. Primary directions were surely the most important tool of the traditional astrologer in foreseeing the facts of life: lost of sight in the 20th century, they are reborn thank to the work of Rumen Kolev 2 [...]
My name is Margherita Fiorello from Rome, Italy.
I graduated with a thesis on Renaissance villas in Papal Kingdom and I have been engaged in traditional astrology since ten years. Currently I'm studying astrology with Giancarlo Ufficiale, one of the founders of CieloeTerra- Prof. Giuseppe Bezza's traditional astrology group. I'm a member of CieloeTerra and a certified CIDA member. More about me in the bio.
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About Cardano’s seven segments: a review
In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna
A post from the past: Girolamo Cardano writes about Jesus’ horoscope
Astrological notes about Indonesia and Samoa quakes
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