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The following is an abstract of the lecture kept in Sophia at the New Bulgarian University on the 19th November 2009 by Prof. Antonio Panaino, the famous Italian Orientalist, Professor of Alma Mater Studiorum and Isiao - the Italian Institute for Africa and East.
I should thank Dimitar Kozhuharov who kindly sent me the file; bibliography [...]
We know that traditional astrology is not an uniform group of tools, rules and techniques, so sometimes it’s difficult to find a common thread in it, we should just collect single inputs trying to put them together.
Surely this is the case of profession and trade determination.
Not all the planets can be chosen as significators of [...]
Since the beginning astrology was never either a block of consistent techniques or it was founded on the same philosophical background.
The art of the astrologer is - like in Plotinus reading signs in the book of the sky?
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 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).
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
About Cardano’s seven segments: a review
About the four humours and temperaments, and what we can conjecture from them
December 8, 2009
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