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A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

October 30, 2009

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A short guide to Ptolemaic primary directions

Reading here and there I see that primary directions are seen as very difficult and occult. It is not like that. Ideas which are behind are very easy to grasp, and modern software can do all the calculation for us: on the other hand people who have learned them generally use them as a way to [...]

In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna

October 18, 2009

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In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna

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).

Astrological notes about Indonesia and Samoa quakes

October 1, 2009

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Astrological notes about Indonesia and Samoa quakes

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 [...]

About Cardano’s seven segments: a review

September 24, 2009

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About Cardano’s seven segments: a review

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.

The harmony of the spheres

September 19, 2009

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The harmony of the spheres

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 [...]

The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole

September 13, 2009

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The astronomy of primum mobile: Placidean directions under the pole

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 [...]

Andrea Argoli on decumbiture

September 7, 2009

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Andrea Argoli on decumbiture

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 [...]

Andrea Argoli:On the good and bad health according the solar Return of the year

August 29, 2009

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Andrea Argoli:On the good and bad health according the solar Return of the year

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 [...]

Humors and love: amor hereos

August 23, 2009

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Humors and love: amor hereos

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 [...]

Primary directions with (and without) Morinus software

August 6, 2009

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Primary directions with (and without) Morinus software

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.