Browsing Tag »Comets«

Johannes Lydus on comets

January 2, 2010

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Comets - like the one it’s told showed the road to Magi- the learned astrologers arrived from far East in order to worship the baby Jesus - always show supernatural events because of their unpredictable nature;  they suddenly appeared in the sky and suddenly disappeared, they did not have a fixed path like the wandering [...]

A Medieval astrologer about Halley Comet in 1301

February 24, 2009

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In the moment everybody is looking in the sky for the Comet Lulin, I believe of some interest reading what a Medieval astrologer wrote about the famous Halley comet in 1301. This passage was so famous that many scholars believe that the Italian painter Giotto painted Halley comet in his  painting for the Scrovegni [...]

Anton Grigoryev, comet Lulin and copies of astrological posts

February 21, 2009

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Surfing the net this morning I found this article posted today in the blog of Anton Grigoryev which is the copycat of my post about the comet Lulin written the 9th of February: http://heavenastrolabe.net/about-the-comet-lulin/ Cardano became Campanella and PseudoPtolemaus Ephastio, but what? Obviously traditional sources are in agreement. So please let’s try to respect others’work. There is even the picture of [...]

An astrological reading of the comet Lulin

February 9, 2009

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Comets have fascinated people since antiquity, who considered them as a sign for future events. They could be for the good if Venusian or Jupiterian comets – and here it’s easy to think to  Julius Caesar’s star, but more often they were malefic in nature, of Mars and Saturn nature. Some say in fact that Electra seeing [...]

Cardano on wars of religion

February 1, 2009

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While talking about the meaning of comets moving against the order of the signs (like the comet Lulin)-  in his  comment to Tetrabiblos -   Girolamo Cardano explains why this is so a bad omen, with reasons unfortunately very true for present time. This means heresy and perturbation in religions, because men can make evil in everything [...]

About omen in the sky and tailed stars

January 20, 2009

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Ptolemeus de stellis cum caudis- BN-Paris 7432 Ptolemy says that tailed stars are nine. First veru, second tenaculum, third pertica, quarta miles, fifth dominus Aschone, sixth matuta seu aurora, seventh argentum, eighth rosa, ninth nera.

Of Comets or blazing stars, Plinius book II

June 3, 2008

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Of Comets or blazing stars, and cœlestiall prodigies, their nature, situation, and diverse sorts. THESE blazing starres the Greekes call Cometas, our Romanes Crinitas: dreadfull to be seene, with bloudie haires, and all over rough and shagged in the top like the bush of haire upon the head. The same Greekes call those starres Pogonias, which [...]