A friend in a recent thread in Deborah Houlding forum, focused my attention about the quality of the Moon according Ptolemy. In Quadripartite, I, 8 Ptolemy debates about the qualities of the planets in respect of the Sun, and other notes he will add in III, 11.
One of the most interesting chapters in astrology is the assessment of temperament. Unfortunately there are no so many original texts at disposal of students of our Art, so I decided to translate - I don’t know for the rest, maybe in the future- some pages from “La fisonomia dell’homo e la celeste”, The physiognomy [...]
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).
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 [...]
A while ago I had the opportunity of visiting in Rome a true factory of perfumes of antiquity with its products: the factory of Pyrgos in the southern part of the island of Cyprus.
The myth tells us about Venus, the goddess of beauty and love: when she arose from the foam of the sea, the [...]
The legend states that this famous medical school was founded around 1000 AD by four pilgrims, experts in herbs, traditional remedies and medicine: a Greek one, a Latin one, a Jew and a Muslim. Surely it was the first medical institution in Europe and the first of European Universities.
The most famous treatise produced in the [...]
The motion of the Sun and the Moon - in the zodiac and in the day causes the generation of all the bodies under the sky.
The kind of generation is determined by the quality of stars: planets, starred images, comets generate all the alterations occurring in primeval qualities, hot and cold, and dry and wet. [...]
January 9, 2012
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