AUTHOR TITLE, CITY, IMPRINT YEAR IMAGE DESCRIPTION, NOTES LINK

1- Reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, catalogues ...)

Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (1820-1888) &

Albert Lancaster (1849-1908) Bibliographie générale de l'Astronomie jusqu'en 1880 (General Bibliography of Astronomy to the Year 1880)

Bruxelles, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1887-1889, 2 vols. ; ed. David Dewhirst, London, The Holland Press, 1964 1887

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1964 A history of astronomy and astrology, and a rather precious catalogue. See especially sections 2 (astrology) and 6 (ephemerides and almanacs). Many German books.

Carnegie Mellon University

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Vol.1-B

August Pauly (1796-1845) & Georg Wissowa (1859-1931) (éd. et al.) Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft

Stuttgart, 1894-1978, 83 vols. 1894

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1978 * Inescapable reference book of which there is a light version. The article "Astrology" by Ernest Riess dates from 1896. Numerous contributions by Wilhelm Gundel.

16 volumes are available on Internet Archive.

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Frederick Leigh Gardner

(1857-1930) Bibliotheca astrologica (A catalogue raisonné of works on the occult science)

London, 1911 ; revised edition by William Wynn Westcott (1848-1925), Hollywood, 1977 ; Whitefish (MT), Kessinger Publishing, 1998 1911 * First catalogue entirely dedicated to astrological works : from Abdylaziz (Alcabitius) to ps.Zoroaster (1340 references).

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Albert Caillet

(1869-1922) Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes

Paris, Lucien Dorbon, 1913, vols 1-3 1913 * First edition in 1912. The most important bibliography on the subject : 11648 entries.

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Bryant Tuckerman

(1915-2002) Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions 601 B.C. to A.D. 1 at 5-Day and 10-Day Intervals

Volume 56 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1962 ; 1990 1962

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1990 Famous modern tables (geocentric positions of the seven classical "planets" including Moon and Sun) for the period 601 BCE to CE 1, given for 7 pm local mean time at 45° East (Babylon longitude). Two copies.

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Herman H. Goldstine New and Full Moons 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651

Volume 94 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1973 ; 1994 1973

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1994 * May be considered as a supplement to Tuckerman's tables. Two copies.

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Owen Gingerich & Barbara Welther Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805

Volume 59S of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1983 1983 * *

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Michael A. Houlden & Francis Richard Stephenson A Supplement to the Tuckerman tables

Volume 170 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1986 1986 * Tuckerman's corrected tables by Houlden & Stephenson. Two copies.

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David Pingree

(1933-2005) Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (CESS)

Volume 213 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1994 1994 * The reference bibliography on "exact sciences" works in Sanskrit, including astrology.

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Colleen O'Brien A guide to Italian Books before 1601 on 35 mm microfilm [and] A guide to French Books before 1601 on 35 mm microfilm

New York, Norman Ross Publishing, 2002 2002 * These collections (although containing many references other than astrological), might be useful : they include 15th century incunabula and 16th century books in all fields published in outstanding printing centers (Lyons and Paris, Venice, Rome and Padua), and others.

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Leandro Cantamessa Arpinati Astrologia. Opere a stampa (1472-1900)

Firenze, Leo Olschki, 2007, 2 vols. 2007

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2019 * Cantamessa's bibliography, the most complete on astrology, has been greatly improved and is now online : Bibliografia di opere stampate tra il 1465 e il 1930 di astrologia e che di astrologia trattano, 8986 refs. (03/2019) from Gonzalo de Abarca to Aron Zynthius. See my review.

Cantamessa

Bibliografia

2- History of astrology (general historical works and conceptions of astrology)

Lynn Thorndike

(1882-1965) The place of Magic in the intellectual History of Europe

Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, New York, Columbia University Press, 1905 1905 Thorndike's doctoral thesis. See my review. Nobody among our recent historians has been able to surpass him there : "Have we a right to attribute to the minds of that age our definiteness and clarity of thought, our common sense, our scientific spirit? Is it fair to take the words in which they expressed their thought and to interpret these according to our knowledge, our frame of mind ; to read into their words our ideas and discoveries ; to rearrange their disconnected utterances into systems which they were incapable of constructing ; to endeavor by nothing else than a sort of allegorical interpretation to discover our philosophy, our science, our ideals in their writings ?" (pp.108-109)

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Lynn Thorndike

(1882-1965) A history of magic and experimental science

New York, Columbia University Press, 1923-1934-1941-1958, 8 vols. 1923

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1958 Although it includes other material, this colossal study remains the best one ever concerning the history of astrology. From Plinius to John Goad (1686). The first six volumes are online (thanks to the Public Library of India).

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Pierre Duhem

(1861-1916) Le système du monde, Histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic

[Paris, Hermann, 1913-1917 & 1954-1959, 5 + 5 vols.] ; new ed. by Olivier Digne, Paris, Hermann, 1979-1988 1913

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1979 * On astrology, see mainly vol. 2 (p.267-390) and vol. 8 (p.347-501). The author has chosen to cite anti-astrologers as preferable to astrologers. According to him, astrology's only purpose would have been to prepare the ground for the theory of gravitation (in vol. 8, 1958, p.500-501).

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Duhem Vol.8

Max Uhlemann Grundzüge der Astronomie und Astrologie der alten, besonders der Aegypter

Leipzig, Otto Wigand, 1857 1857 * *

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Uhlemann

Louis-Ferdinand Alfred Maury La magie et l'astrologie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age ou Étude sur les superstitions païennes

Paris, Librairie Académique, 1860 1860 * Superficial. (Several Google copies : 1, 2, 3, 4.)

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Theodore Wedel

(1892-1970) The mediaeval attitude toward astrology

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1920 1920 From his doctoral thesis of 1918. Incomplete version can be found on Google books.

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Charles Dupuis

(1742-1809) Origine de tous les cultes, ou Religion universelle

[Paris, 1794, 3 vols.] ; new ed. P-R Auguis, Paris, Émile Babeuf, 1822, 7 vols. 1794

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1822 Famous theory : the origins of cults and religions are celestial. All religions were veiled astrological systems. See mainly vol. 6 (history of zodiac and constellations).

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Charles Dupuis

(1742-1809) Mémoire explicatif du zodiaque chronologique et mythologique

Paris, Courcier, 1806 1806 * *

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Richard Hinckley Allen

(1838-1908) Star Names : Their Lore and Meaning

[1899] ; New York, Dover Publications, 1963 1899

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1963 * Compendium on the origins of star names. On Allen's compilation, see Gary Thompson's review.

Bill Thayer

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Wilhelm Gundel

(1880-1945) De stellarum appellatione et religione Romana

Giessen, Alfred Toepelmann, 1907 1907 * *

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Wilhelm Knappich

(1880-1970) Geschichte der Astrologie

[Vienna, 1953] ; Francfort, Vittorio Klostermann, 1967 ; 1988 ; 1998 1953

1967

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1998 Translated in French in 1986. Partial copy of the German version on Google books.

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Daniel Walker

(1914-1985) Spiritual and Demonic Magic: from Ficino to Campanella

London, Warburg Institute, 1958 ; University Park (PA), Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000 1958

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2000 * Two partial copies.

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Rupert Gleadow

(1909-1974) The Origin of the Zodiac

London, Jonathan Cape, 1968 ; Mineola NY, Dover, 2001 1968

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2001 A good compendium on the subject. French translation in 1971. The first two chapters online.

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Gleadow

Jim Stanley Tester A history of Western astrology

Woodbridge, Boydell Press (Boydell & Brewer), 1987 1987 * See my concise review in French : here. Incomplete version can be found on Google books.

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James H. Holden A History of Horoscopic Astrology

1996 ; 2nd edition, Tempe (AZ), American Federation of Astrologers, 2006 1996

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2006 * *

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3- Origins of astrology (prehistoric & neolithic cultures, ancient astronomy, Egypt ...)

Marcel Baudouin "La préhistoire des étoiles"

[1 & 2], in Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, dir. Paul Broca, T 7, 6e série, 1916 ; Paris, Masson, 1917, pp.25-103 & 274-317 1916 * Important article on the Pleiades and the origin of the stellar year (around 38,000 BCE).

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Alexander Thom

(18941985) Megalithic lunar observatories

Oxford University Press (US), 1971 1971 On Lunar observatories in Megalithic Europe. Thom, one of the leaders of archaeoastronomy, gives evidence of Moon and Sun alignments at its risings and sets at equinoxes, solstices and intermediate points in some megalithic monuments. Only some pages available.

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Elizabeth Chesley Baity Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [with Comments and Reply]

in Current Anthropology, 14.4, Oct. 1973, pp. 389-449 1973 * Not recent, but a good summary of the subject.

O. A. La Plata

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Baity

Jean-Baptiste Biot

(1774-1862) Mémoire sur le zodiaque circulaire de Denderah

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1844 1844 * First researches on the Dendera zodiac.

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Biot

Norman Lockyer

(1836-1920) The Dawn of Astronomy

London, Cassell, 1894 1894 * *

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Marshall Clagett Ancient Egyptian Science II (Calendars, clocks, and astronomy)

Volume 214 of the Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1995 1995 A synthesis of ancient Egyptian astronomical knowledge. See the relations between the early decanal constellations which rise on the horizon and the late introduction of zodiacal decans in astrology.

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Marcel Griaule

(1898-1956)

& Germaine Dieterlen

(1903-1999) Un système soudanais de Sirius

Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 20.2, 1950 1950 * *

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4- Mesopotamian Astrology

Jules Oppert

(1825-1905) "Tablettes Assyriennes"

Journal asiatique, T 18, 4e tri. 1871, p.443-453 1871 * *

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Archibald Henry Sayce

(1846-1933) "The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians"

Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, London, vol. 3, 1874, p.145-339 1874 * *

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Edward George King Akkadian Genesis. Or the influence of early Babylonian religion on the language and thought of Genesis

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell and Co., 1888 1888 * *

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Morris Jastrow

(1861-1921) The religion of Babylonia and Assyria

Boston, Ginn, 1898 1898 * Cf. pp. 328-466 on Babylonian omens, cosmology and astrology.

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Robert Brown

(1844-1912) Researches into the Origin of the Primitive Constellations of the Greeks, Phoenicians and Babylonians

Oxford, Williams and Norgate, 1899-1900, 2 vols. 1899

1900 * On Brown, see G. Thompson : http://members.westnet.com.au/Gary-David-Thompson/page11-35.html

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Reginald Campbell Thompson The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum

London, Luzac, 1900, 2 vols. 1900 * 277 reports and letters of royal priests and astrologers : more can be seen in the editions of Waterman (1930), Pfeiffer (1935), Parpola (1970-1983) and Hunger (1992).

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Emmeline Plunket Ancient Calendars and Constellations

London, John Murray, 1903 1903 * *

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Leonard King [Mesopotamian Mul.Apin series] : Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Part XXXIII

London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1912 1912 The famous Babylonian astronomical compilation, and the earliest surviving catalogue of constellations. But mainly a series of "proto-astrological" parapegmata compiled for divination purposes (On the image : constellations within the paths of Anu & Ea, and Venus, Mars, Saturn & Mercury).

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André Florisoone

(1919-1959) "Les origines chaldéennes du zodiaque" [and] "Astres et constellations des Babyloniens"

in Ciel et Terre, Vols. 66-67, 1950-1951 1950

1951 * *

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Bartel van der Waerden

(1903-1996) Science Awakening #2 : The Birth of Astronomy [Die Anfänge der Astronomie. Erwachende Wissenschaft II]

Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1966 ; Engl. Version, P. Noordhoff [and New York, Oxford University Press], 1974 1966

1974 Only 30 pages of Van der Waerden's master work on ancient astrology (despite of the title) are available on Google Books.

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Simo Parpola Mesopotamian Astrology and Astronomy as Domains of the Mesopotamian 'Wisdom'

in Hannes D. Galter (dir.), Die Rolle der Astronomie in den Kulturen Mesopotamiens, Graz, 1993 1993 * *

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Simo Parpola "The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy"

in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 52.3, University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 161-208 1993 * On the numbers associated to the Gods (Anu, Sin, Marduk, Nabû, etc) and the origin of the Sefirotic tree.

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Erica Reiner

(1924-2005) Astral Magic in Babylonia

Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1995 1995 * *

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Ulla Koch-Westenholz Mesopotamian Astrology. An introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestrial Divination

Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995 1995 "A case study of celestial divination, an analysis of the received traditions as well as a description of astrology in subsequent periods." Some pages on Google books.

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Francesca Rochberg Babylonian Horoscopes

Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1998 1998 "The first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes -- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary."

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John H. Rogers "Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions [and] II. The Mediterranean traditions"

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 108, 1-2, 1998 1998 In the sky-map of ancient Babylon, constellations developed into two overlapping traditions: a religious tradition (including zodiacal constellations), and a farming-calendar tradition (~3200-500 BCE).

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Hermann Hunger

& David Pingree

(1933-2005) Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia

Leiden, Brill, 1999 1999 * MUL.APIN translation (pp.57-82). The reference edition remains : "MUL.APIN : An astronomical compendium in cuneiform" by Hermann Hunger & David Pingree (Horn (Austria), Archiv für Orientforschung #24, 1989). The text has been dated from 1400 to 900 BC (see Van der Waerden, 1974), 2300 BC for Werner Papke (1978), 1000 BC (Hunger & Pingree, 1989), and recently from 1370 BC (Brad Schaefer, 2007). But probably the different engraved sections come from different periods. For a good presentation, see Gary Thompson's page.

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Noel Swerdlow (ed) Ancient astronomy and celestial divination

Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999 1999 * *

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Daryn Lehoux Parapegmata, Astrology, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World

D. TH. University of Toronto, 2000 2000 Important doctoral thesis on the Parapegmata, "texts and instruments used for tracking cyclical phenomena" (in Babylon, Greece, Egypt, Rome, etc), essentially for astrometeorological purposes. It has been recently published by Cambridge University Press (2007). See also "Observation and Prediction in Ancient Astrology" (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science).

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Jerrold Cooper "Assyrian Prophecies, The Assyrian Tree, and The Mesopotamian Origins of Jewish Monotheism, Greek Philosophy, Christian Theology, Gnosticism, and much more"

in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120.3, American Oriental Society, 2000, pp. 430-444 2000 * Review of 'Assyrian Prophecies' (Helsinki, 1997) by Simo Parpola.

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Francesca Rochberg The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 2004 * See Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Eleanor Robson, and Hermann Hunger's review.

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Francesca Rochberg In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and its Legacy

Studies in Ancient Magic and Divination, vol. 6, Leiden, Brill, 2010 2010 * Compendium of articles on Babylonian astrology from 1982 to 2010, reviewed by Lorenzo Verderame of Roma in Aestimatio (8, 2011).

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Alexander Jones

& John M. Steele "A New Discovery of a Component of Greek Astrology in Babylonian Tablets: The "Terms" "

New York University, Institute for the Study of Ancient World, ISAW Papers 1, 2011 2011 * The discovery of the "Greek" system of Terms in British Museum's Babylonian tablets (BM 36628+36817+37197 and BM 36323).

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5- Chinese Astrology

Léopold de Saussure

(1866-1925) Les origines de l'Astronomie chinoise

T'oung pao, Leiden, Brill, 1907-1922 ; Paris, Maisonneuve 1930 1907

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1930 A colossal work : the first modern complete essay on history of Chinese astronomy and astrology, initially published in the journal T'oung pao (series 2, vols 8-10-11-12-14-15-20-21) between 1907 and 1922 (parts A to G1 and G2 to I). Incomplete series on Gallica and on Internet Archive : the missing chapter, Le cycle de Jupiter (I. La planète annuaire, ...), can be downloaded on CURA. Saussure shows that the ancient cosmogonical system of China was a metaphysical construction instigated by astrologers, "la plus ancienne conception unitaire, synthétique et déterministe du monde".

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Léopold de Saussure

(1866-1925) "Le système astronomique des Chinois" [and other articles]

Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, Geneva, 1907, 1919-1920, 1923 1907

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1923 Several articles published in Geneva : "Prolégomènes d'astronomie primitive comparée", "Le zodiaque lunaire asiatique", "Le système astronomique des Chinois", "Origine babylonienne de l'astronomie chinoise" and "L'origine de la rose des vents et l'invention de la boussole" (Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles, 112, 124, 124-125, 128, and 128, 1907-1923).

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Zodiaque 1919

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Origine 1923

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Coching Chu

(1890-1974) The Origin of Twenty-Eight Mansions in Astronomy

in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 55, 1947 1947 * About the origin of Hindu Nakshatras and Chinese Siu. Chu, after Saussure and with some new observations, advocates "the indigeneity of the system of 28 Mansions to china" (around 3000 BC).

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Joseph Needham

(1900-1995) Science and Civilisation in China

Cambridge University Press (UK), vols 2-3, 1956-1959 1956

1959 Only seven unuseful pages on astrology (hsing ming) : "it has hardly been investigated at all by modern historians of science." (vol. 2, p.351). The next volume is related to mathematics, calendars, cosmology and astronomy.

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Éveline Porée-Maspero "Le cycle des douze animaux dans la vie des Cambodgiens"

Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, vol. 50, 1962 1962 * An ethnological study on the famous 12-year Animal Cycle in Cambodia.

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Edward H. Schafer Pacing the void. T'ang Approaches to the Stars

Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1977 1977 "For most early Chinese, even for the most advanced authorities on events in the sky, astronomy was indistinguishable from astrology. (...) There were certainly skeptics, but it appears that most men, even well-educated men, continued to believe that a predictable Jupiter remained an awful Jupiter." (p.9)

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John Steele "A Comparison of Astronomical Terminology and Concepts in China and Mesopotamia"

'Origins of Early Writing Systems' Conference, October 2007, Peking University, Beijing 2007 * A concise comparative study between ancient Chinese and Babylonian astronomies (and astrologies) : "Some of the earliest preserved Chinese writing deals with divination and corresponding celestial phenomena ..." The author, of Durham University, ignores Saussure's pioneer ideas.

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6- Greek, Roman & Hellenistic Astrology (and Christian critics)

Johann Albert Fabricius

(1668-1736) Bibliotheca Graeca, sive Notitia scriptorum veterum graecorum

Hamburg, Karl Ernest Bohn, 1793-1795, vols. 3-4 1793

1795 * On astrological treatises, see vol. 4, book 21, p. 128 sq.

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Charles Daremberg (1817-1872), Edmond Saglio (1828-1911) & Edmond Pottier (1855-1934) éds. Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines d'après les textes et les monuments

Paris, Hachette, 1877-1919, 9 + 1 vols. 1877

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1919 * Autoritative dictionary including various articles on Ancient astrology : among them, Franz Cumont's article on Zodiacus. See also my compendium (2015).

Univ. Toulouse

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Franz Cumont, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Kroll et al (ed.) Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG), I-IV

Bruxelles, Henri Lamertin, 1898-1900-1901-1903, 4 vols. 1898

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Franz Cumont, Franz Boll, Wilhelm Kroll et al (ed.) Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG), IX.1-2, X, XI.1-2, XII (Codices Britannicos, Athenienses, Hispanienses ac Rossicos)

Bruxelles, Maurice Lamertin, 1912-1953, 6 vols. 1912

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Oxford

CCAG 11.1

Otto Neugebauer & Henry Van Hoesen Greek Horoscopes

Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1959 ; 1987 1959 The reference book on Greek horoscopes. Would have been better without the antiastrological opinion of Festugière, but maybe it was the only way for the XXth century pioneers of history of astrology.

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Alexander Jones Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus: (P. Oxy. 4133-4300a)

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 233, Philadelphia, 1999, 2 vols. ; Diane Publishing 1999 Greek horoscopes.

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Aratos of Soli

(c.310-245 BC) Phaenomena

Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499 1499 * Latin version and comments. An introduction to Greek constellations after Eudoxos of Knidos (c. 395-340). See also the English translation of A. W. & G. R. Mair on Theoi Project (London: William Heinemann, Loeb library # 129, 1921).

Wolfenbütteler DB

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Hipparkhos (Hipparchus) of Nicaea

(190-120 BCE) Hipparchi Bithyni in Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena [Commentary in 3 books]

Florence, Bernardi's sons, 1567 1567 * "en tête des astrologues comme des astronomes grecs" (Cumont, in Klio 9)

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Hipparchus

Nechepso and Petosiris Fragmenta magica

Edition Ernst Riess, in Philologus, supplement 6, Göttingen, 1892, pp. 325-388 1892 * See also the extracts of N-P 'De Solis et Lunae defectionibus' (in CCAG VII, p.129-151).

Chris Brennan

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Petosiris

Geminus of Rhodes

(1st century BC) Elementa astronomiae

Ed. Carolus Manitius, Leipzig, Teubner, 1898 1898 * Greek text, German translation, introduction in Latin. Some parts of Geminus' treatise are highly recommended, especially those related to the definition of zodiacal signs. The "Elements of astronomy" proves that the Greeks were not using an imaginary sidereal zodiac. Corrected Google version (PDF) by Joseph Leichter.

Wilbourhall

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Geminos

Marcus Vitruvius

(c.75-15 BC) De Architectura, IX

Latin text Valentin Rose, Leipzig, Teubner, 1899 [and] English translation Joseph Gwilt, London, Priestley & Weale, 1826 c.25

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Marcus Vitruvius

(c.75-15 BC) De l'Architecture [Architecture ou Art de bien bastir]

French translation Jean Martin, Paris, Jacques Gazeau, 1547 1547 HTML version by Claire Smith (University of Toronto).

Gallica

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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

(43 BC - 17 AD) Fastorum

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1568 1568 * Contains the "Life of Ovid" by Petrus Crinitus, the "Fastorum", a commentary by Melanchthon, a Latin translation of Ptolemy's "Inerrantium stellarum significationes" by Nicolaus Leonicus, and Ovid's "Tristium" and "De Ponto".

MUNICH

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Ovid Fastorum

Cologne, Johannes Gymnicus, 1576 1576 * With a Latin translation of Ptolemy's "Inerrantium stellarum significationes" by Nicolaus Leonicus.

MUNICH

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Ovide Fastes

in Oeuvres complètes, French translation dir. Désiré Nisard (1806-1888), Paris, Firmin Didot, 1869, p.541-660. 1869 * With Latin text. See on CURA the review by Martín Pozzi (in Spanish) of "Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti" by Emma Gee.

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Marcus Manilius Astronomica [or] Astronomicon

Venice, [Bernardinus Venetus], [c. 1498-1500] [and]

Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499 [and]

Reggio Emilia, Franciscus Mazalis, 1503 1498

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1503 * HTML version at the Latin Library.

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Manutius

IMSS Florence

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Marcus Manilius Astronomicon

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 1551 * *

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Manilius / Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609) Astronomicon ; Castigationes et notae in M. Manili Astronomicon

printed by Mamert Patisson for Robert Estienne, Paris, 1579 ; Leiden, Christophorus Raphelencius, 1600 1579

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Edward Sherburne

(1618-1702) The Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English Poem

London, Nathanael Brooke, 1675 1675 * Versified translation of the first book of Astronomicon, with an essay on the origin and progress of astronomy, a precious catalogue of the most eminent astronomers [i.e. astrologers and astronomers], ancient & modern (to 1673 with Newton, John Collins and John Gadbury), and several other essays including one on the cosmical system.

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Marcus Manilius Astronomicon

Edition Johann Albert Fabricius (1668-1736), Padova, Josephus Cominus, 1743 1743 Edited with Christophorus Cellarius (1638-1707) "Rudimenta astronomica", David Gregorius (1659-1708) "De stellarum ortu & occasu poetico", and Julius Pontedera (1688-1757) "De Manilii Astronomia & anno caelesti".

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Marcus Manilius Astronomicon

Edition Edmund Burton, London, J. Nichols, 1783 1783 * With comments by Joseph Scaliger et al.

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Marcus Manilius Astronomicon

Latin text and French translation by Alexandre Pingré (1711-1796), Paris, 1786, 2 vols. 1786 *

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Marcus Manilius Astronomiques [or] Astrologiques

Edition Désiré Nisard (1806-1888), Paris, Firmin Didot, 1865 1786

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Marcus Manilius Astronomicon

London, A. J. Valpy, 1828, 2 vols. 1828 * *

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Marcus Manilius Astronomicon

Edition Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), London, Grant Richards, 5 vols, 1903-1912-1916-1920-1930 1903

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1930 THE edition of Manilius's astro-poetical treatise.

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Angélica Paulillo Ferroni Cosmologia e astrologia na obra Astronomica de Marcus Manilius

Master Thesis, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007 2007 * Portuguese master thesis on Manilius Astronomica.

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Anonymous [Astrological treatise]

Michigan Papyrus 1, Greek ms, University of Michigan 150 ? Important astrological treatise (c. 150 AD ?), discovered in Egypt in 1920. It gives correlations between planets and parts of human body. See eight-folded zodiacal division (col. VII and IX), Robbins article (Classical Philology 22.1, 1927), and my Octotopos. See at the same web site, two horoscopes and some other astrological fragments : Search Astrology in Michigan mss.

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Mss 4Q186 and 4Q561 / Mladen Popović Reading the human body. Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman period Judaism

D TH Groningen University, 2006 (published by Brill in 2007) 2006 A study of two fragmentary manuscripts (Hebrew manuscript 4Q186 and Aramaic manuscript 4Q561). The author discusses Francis Schmidt, rightly rejects his Conception theory, but wrongly his zodiacal decan model and concludes by an apory (only eight -- supposed -- arrangements of the famous light and darkness parts, for twelve zodiacal signs), and he totally ignores my 2002 study : L'étoile de Bethléem.

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Quadripartitum opus [and] ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium

Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1484 1484 * The first edition of the Tetrabiblos, translated by Plato of Tivoli. With ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium and Haly's comment.

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Liber quadripartitus (Tetrabiblos)

Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1493 [and] Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 1493

1519 Famous compilation : Latin translation of the Arabic version of Alī b. Ridwān (Haly Abenrudian, + 1068) with his commentary. Edited with several Arabic treatises : the Centiloquium of ps-Ptolemy, the Centiloquium & "De stellis beibeniis" of "Hermes", the Centiloquium, "De horis planetarum" and "De significatione triplicitatum ortus" of Bethen, the 150 propositiones of "Almansor", three treatises of Sahl ibn Bišr (De interrogationibus ; De electionibus ; De temporum significationibus in judiciis, and four treatises of Messahallah (De receptionibus planetarum, De interrogationibus, De conjunctionibus planetarum, De revolutionibus annorum mundi).

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Quadripartitum (Tetrabiblos)

Latin translation from Arabic by Plato of Tivoli (1138) ; in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 1533 * Another edition of history's most influential astrological work.

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Opera

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1541 1541 The 1541 edition includes the Almagest and the interpretation by Georgius Valla of Proclus's commentary (the Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum), the Quadripartitum, the ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium, and the Inerrantium stellarum significationes, translated in Latin by Nicolaus Leonicus.

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Quadripartitum (Tetrabiblos)

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 1551 * *

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Tetrabiblos

English translation from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus by J. Ashmand, London, Davis and Dickson, [1822] 1822 With Centiloquium (one hundred aphorisms) of ps-Ptolemy, written by Arabian astrologer Ahmet Abū Ja'far (Abugafarus) in c. 922 (Richard Lemay, 1978).

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ps-Ptolemy Karpos (Fructus sive Centiloquium)

Ed. Aemilia Boer, Leipzig, Teubner, 1961 1961 * Teubnerian Greek edition of the Karpos (comments in Latin). Edited with the "De judicandi facultate et animi principatu".

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Tetrabiblos

English translation by Frank Egleston Robbins, London, William Heinemann, (Loeb Classical Library), 1940 1940 * A better English translation.

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Ptolemy

(100-178) Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 ; Edited with Ovid's Fastorum, Cologne, Johannes Gymnicus, 1576 1551

1576 * Translated from Greek by Nicolaus Leonicus.

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Mark T. Riley "Theoretical and Practical Astrology: Ptolemy and his Colleagues"

Transactions of the American Philological Association, 117, 1987 1987 * The article illustrates finely the differences between research and popular astrology, although Ptolemy was not a real investigator in this aera but more probably a rather good compilator. See also by M. Riley : "Science and Tradition in the Tetrabiblos" (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 132.1, 1988).

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Vettius Valens

(fl. 150-188) Anthologiarum libri [in 9 books]

Edition Wilhelm Kroll, Berlin, Weidmann, 1908 1908 * Another edition by Pingree : Leipzig, Teubner, 1986. (English translation of books I to IV by Robert Schmidt : Berkeley Springs WV, Golden Hind Press, 1993-1996, 4 vols.)

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Valens

Vettius Valens / Mark T. Riley Anthologies

English translation Mark Riley, ca. 1995 1995 * Entire and useful translation of Valens' Anthologiae, completed in the 1990's, and based on Kroll's 1908 and Pingree's 1986 editions.

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Vettius Valens

(fl. 150-188) Anthologies, Livre I

French translation Joëlle-Frédérique Bara (book I), Leiden, Brill, 1989 1989 * Two partial copies of the same pages on Google books.

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Mark T. Riley "A Survey of Vettius Valens"

1996 1996 * A good introduction to Valens' Anthologiarum libri.

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Aulus Gellius

(2nd A.D.) Les nuits attiques (Noctes Atticae)

French translation, Paris, Garnier, 1919, 2 vols. 1919 * Gellius gives the Latin text and translates the argumentation of Favorinus d'Arles (c. 85-160) against astrology : Unknown planets could exist that the eye can't see and that render astrology incomplete and uncertain (see XIV 1, vol. 2, pp.196-207, especially p.199).

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Sextus Empiricus

(c. 150-210) [Adversus mathematicos]

Greek edition Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871), Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1842 1842 * Edition digitalized by Google. More than three copies.

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Sextus Empiricus

(c. 150-210) Adversus mathematicos

Latin translation Gentian Hervet (1499-1584), Paris, Martin le Jeune, 1569 1569 A skeptical philosophical treatise against all arts, sciences and techniques. See chapter 21 (pp.93-107) : Adversus astrologos (Against the astrologers). Ignorant of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos.

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Censorinus (grammaticus)

(fl. 220-240) De die natali

Bologna, Benedictus Hector, 1497 [and] Venice, ca. 1498-1500 [and] Rostock, Stephan Myliander, 1579 [and] Paris, Aegidius Beysius, 1583 238

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1889 Written in 238 A.D. Numerous editions. Compilation on the time of life, the climacteric years, and the cycles of the great year. Epigram of Ian Auratus (Jean Dorat) in Paris edition.



HTML version by Bill Tayer from the edition of Ivan Cholodniak (St. Petersburg, Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1889).

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Censorinus

(fl. 220-240) Du jour natal

Paris, Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke, 1843 238

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1843 * Latin text and French translation Jacques Mangeart (1805-1874).

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Julius Firmicus Maternus De nativitatibus [or] Astronomica [or] Mathesis

Venice, Simone Bevilaqua, 1497 [and] Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499 [and]

Reggio Emilia, Franciscus Mazalis, 1503 335

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1503 Editio princeps, edited by Antonius Laurus (1497). French translation by Pierre Monat : Paris, Belles Lettres, 1992-1997, 3 vols.

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Julius Firmicus Maternus Astronomicon

Nicolaus Pruckner's edition, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 335

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Julius Firmicus Maternus Matheseos libri VIII

Wilhelm Kroll & Franz Skutsch edition, Leipzig, Teubner, 1897-1913, 2 vols. 1897

1913 * Modern autoritative edition.

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Julius Firmicus Maternus De errore profanarum religionum

Strasbourg, Paulus Machaeropoeus, 1562 1562 * Another treatise of (the same?) Firmicus, against Pagan cults.

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Julius Firmicus Maternus Matheseos

English translation Jean Rhys Bram, Park Ridge (NJ), Noyes Press, 1975 1975 The first English translation : a questionable one after his Doct. Th. (1972). The text can be viewed on Scribd (and the file downloaded after subscription).

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Maximus (Maximos) et Ammon

(fl. c. 360 & aft. 360 ?) Peri Katarche [Carminum de actionum auspiciis reliquae]

Edition Arthur Ludwich, Leipzig, Teubner, 1877 1877 * With ps.Manetho's Apotelesmaticorum.

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Maximos

ps.Manetho Apotelesmaticorum libri VI

Edition Arminius Koechly, Leipzig, Teubner, 1878 1878 * Compilation by several authors during the first three centuries AD. Final redaction after 300. (See after Maximos Peri Katarche).

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Hephaistio of Thebes

(fl. c. 380) Apotelesmaticorum [in 3 books]

Edition August Engelbrecht (Hephaestion von Theben and sein astrologisches Compendium), Vienna, Carl Konegen, 1887 1887 Another edition by David Pingree : Leipzig, Teubner, 1973-1974, 2 vols. English translation of books I & 2 by Robert Schmidt : Berkeley Springs WV, Golden Hind Press, 1994-1998, 2 vols.

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Proclus

(412-485) Enarratio

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1559 1559 * The edition gives the Greek text and a Latin translation of Proclus commentary of the Tetrabiblos, Porphyry comments on Ptolemy's astrology, and the De revolutionibus nativitatum of "Hermes".

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Joannes Laurentius Lydus

(ca. 490-565) De Mensibus [and] De ostentis

Edition Immanuel Bekker, Bonn, Ed. Weber, 1837 1837 * *

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Joannes Laurentius Lydus

(ca. 490-565) Liber De ostentis et Calendaria graeca omnia

Edition Kurt Wachsmuth, Leipzig, teubner, 1897 1897 * Lydus Greek text on divination and presages is edited with Greek calendars including Ptolemy's 'Apparitions of the Fixed Stars'.

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Lydus

Rhetorius / Holden Rhetorius the Egyptian

Tempe (AZ), American Federation of Astrologers, 2009 2009 A translation of Rhetorius' Compendium (about AD 620) by James Herschel Holden. It includes a translation of Teucer of Babylon treatises : "On the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" and "The Nature and Force of the Seven planets". See also Rhetorius Aegyptius, Compendium astrologicum by David Pingree (+ 2005), continued by Stephan Heilen (to be published in March 2011 : Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, Bibliotheca Teubneriana).

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Auguste Bouché-Leclercq

(1842-1924) L'astrologie grecque, chapters I & XVI

1897 ; [Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1899] 1897 * These chapters of "L'astrologie grecque" have been separately published in 1897 in the "Revue d'Histoire des Religions" and in the "Revue Historique".

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Auguste Bouché-Leclercq

(1842-1924) L'astrologie grecque

Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1899 1899 The first edition of the most famous essay on Greek astrology. Several reprints.

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Franz Boll

(1867-1924) Sphaera. Neue griechische Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Sternbilder

Leipzig, Teubner, 1903 1903 * On Greek constellations.

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Franz Cumont

(1868-1947) "Le mysticisme astral dans l'antiquité"

in Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques et de la Classe des Beaux-arts, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1909 ; Bruxelles, Hayez, 1909 1909 * *

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Franz Cumont

(1868-1947) "Babylon und die griechische Astronomie"

in Neuen Jahrbüchern, 27 ; Leipzig, Teubner, 1911 1911 * *

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Franz Cumont

(1868-1947) Astrology and religion among the Greeks and Romans

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 1912 * Astrology as astrolatry : sociologically oriented but not really comprehensive. We have yet to learn why supposed "astrolatry" interested Ptolemy, and Cardano, Kepler or Campanella some fifteen centuries later ...

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Franz Cumont

(1868-1947) "Les présages lunaires de Virgile et les 'Selenodromia' "

in Revue Antiquité Classique, 2.2, 1933 ; Bruxelles, 1933 1933 * *

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Franz Cumont

(1868-1947) "Les noms des planètes et l'astrolatrie chez les Grecs"

in L'antiquité classique, 4.1 ; Bruxelles, 1935 1935 * *

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Max Laistner "The Western Church and Astrology during the early Middle Ages"

in Harvard Theological Review 34, 1941 1941 * "One fruitful source of confusion in books and articles dealing with our subject has been a failure to distinguish clearly between "scientific" and popular astrology." (p.253).

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Marilynn Lawrence "Hellenistic Astrology"

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005-2006 2006 * A rather good review of the subject : "Hellenistic and Late Antiquity astrologers built their craft upon Babylonian (and to a lesser extent Egyptian) astrological traditions, and developed their theoretical and technical doctrines using a combination of Stoic, Middle Platonic and Neopythagorean thought."

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Roger Beck A Brief History of Ancient Astrology

Malden (MA), Blackwell, 2007 2007 * See also Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Joanna Komorowska and Aestimatio review by Katharina Volk.

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Chris Mitchell Did the division of the year by the Babylonians into twelve months lead to the adoption of an equal twelve-sign zodiac in Hellenistic astrology?

MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, Bath Spa University College, April 2008 2008 * School if not scholar dissertation under unimaginative direction.

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Mitchell

Lucia Bellizia I Paranatellonta nella letteratura astrologica antica di lingua greca [The Paranatellonta in ancient Greek astrological literature]

Genova, 2010 ; English translation, 2010 2010 * A concise history of the Paranatellonta (the stars rising together) in Greek literature (Teukros, Valens, etc)

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7- Indian Astrology

Sphujidhvaja Yavanajātaka ["The Sayings of the Greeks"]

English translation David Pingree, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1978, vol. 2 269

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Minarāja

(IVth c.) Vrddhayavana Jātaka

Edited by David Pingree, Baroda, Oriental Institute, 1976, 3 vols. 1976 * Sanskrit compilation of Greek astrology. Third volume is not yet available. PDF compiled by Joseph Leichter from scans obtained at the Digital Library of India.

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Varahamihira

(c.505-587) Brihat Samhitā

English translation N. Chidambaram Iyer, Madura, South Indian Press, 1884 1884 * Astronomy and natural astrology. A typical model of ancient "matricial repartitions". Google version (PDF) by Joseph Leichter.

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Varahamihira

(c.505-587) Brihat Jātaka [Horāśāstram]

Sanskrit text edited by A. N. Srinivasaraghava Aiyangar, Madras, Theosophical Society (Adyar Library), 1951 1951 * PDF compiled from a DjVu file available at the Million Books Project (Internet Archive) by Joseph Leichter.

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Varahamihira

(c.505-587) Brihat Jātaka

English translation N. Chidambaram Iyer, Madras, Foster Press, 1885 1885 * Varahamihira's astrological main treatise. Google version (PDF) by Joseph Leichter.

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Varahamihira

(c.505-587) Brihat Jātaka

English translation N. Chidambaram Aiyar, 2nd rev. ed., Madras, Thompson & Co., 1905 1905 See also, on Scribd, the Daivagyna Vallabha of Varahamihira (Horary Astrology) and the Jataka Lakshanas in Horasara of his son Prithuyasas.

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Rishi Jaimini Jaimini Sutras

English translation Suryanarain Rao (revised by Bangalore Venkata Raman), Bangalore, IBH Prakashana, 6th edition 1984 1984 * (Published without original texts in Devanagari and transliteration). See also the HTML version on Astro Jyoti website and the Astrology Sastras Library including 17 translations of Classics, on the same website.

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Parāśara

(VIIIth c.?) Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra [ Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra ] [BPHS]

Transl. Girish Chand Sharma, New Delhi, Sagar Publications, 1994-1995 ; 1999-2000, 2 vols. 8th c.?

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2003 * A chief treatise of Jyotish Astrology. English HTML version on Astrojyoti website.

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Mantreswara

(XIIIth c.?) Mantreswara Phala Deepika

Transl. Dr. G. S. Kapoor, New Delhi 13th c.? * General manual beginning with the distinction between Razis (zodiacal signs) and Bhavas (houses). The book is attributed to Shri Mantreswara.

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George Thibaut

(1848-1914) Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik

Strasbourg, Karl Trübner, 1899 1899 * On Indian astrology and astronomy.

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Sankar Balakrishna Dikshit Bharatiya Jyotish Sastra (History of Indian Astronomy)

Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1969 then Delhi, Government of India Press, 1981 1969

1981 * See vol. 2, pp. 364-378 for a brief review of Indian astrology.

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8- Arabic Astrology (including Syrian and Jewish)

Ethel Stefana Drower The Book of the Zodiac

London, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1949 1949 * English translation of the Mandaean Sfar Malwasia from three Mandaic manuscripts (Included the Mandaic text). See also Rochberg (in ARAM 11-12, 1999-2000, reprint in her book In the Path of the Moon, 2010, p.223 sq.).

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Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)

(c. 735-815) Opera Messahallica (De significationibus planetarum in nativitate, Liber receptionis, De revolutionibus annorum mundi, Epistola in rebus eclipsis, De cogitatione)

Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 [and] Edition Joachim Heller, Nuremberg, Johann vom Berg & Ulrich Neuber, 1549 1549 Jewish Pagan converted to Islam. For the content of these treatises, see David Juste notice.

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Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)

(c. 735-815) De elementis et orbibus coelestibus

Nuremberg, Ioannes Montanus & Ulricus Neuberus, 1549 1549 Technical manual. See in the second part : "De Eris intervallis regnorum et gentium", "De era persarum", "De revolutionibus annorum", "De aequatione duodecim domorum coeli" ...

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Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)

(c. 735-815) De ratione circuli et stellarum

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 1551 * *

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Māshā'allāh ben Atharī (Messahallah)

(c. 735-815) On the Things of Eclipses of Luminaries, and of Conjunctions of Planets, and of Revolutions of Years

Translated into English from Latin version of John of Seville by Anton Grigoryev. 2004 * English translation of "Epistola in rebus eclipsis".

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'Umar Ibn Farrukhān al-Tabarī [Omar, Alfraganus]

(+ c. 815) De nativitatibus

[Venice, 1503] ; Edition Luca Gaurico, Venice, 1525 [and] in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 1525

1533 * Latin translation of Kitāb al-mawālīd by John of Seville in 1127 (see Carmody, 1956, p.38).

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'Umar Ibn Farrukhān al-Tabarī [Omar, Alfraganus]

(+ c. 815) De nativitatibus

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 1551 * *

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Abū 'Alī al-Khayyat (Albohali)

(770-835) De Iudiciis Nativitatum

Nuremberg, Johann vom Berg (Montanus) & Ulrich Neuber, 1549 1549 With a preface by Joachim Heller to his tutor Philipp Melanchthon. At the end (f.Q3v) : "Soli Deo Gloria" (Glory to the one God, or to the Sun God).

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Abū 'Alī al-Khayyat (Albohali)

(770-835) Astrologia terrestris oder irdische Sterndeutungs-Lehre

Frenstadt, 1767 1767 A treatise of geomantical astrology, attributed to Albohali and reported by Wilhelm Knappich.

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Sahl ibn Bišr (Zahel or Zael)

(+ in 822 or in 850) Opera Zahelica (Introductorium, Quinquaginta precepta, De interrogationibus, De electionibus, Liber temporum [or] De significatione temporis ad judicia)

Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1509 [and] Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 [and ?] 1509

1519 For the content of these treatises, see David Juste notice. Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985) ; English translation by James Holden (AFA, Tempe AZ, 2008).

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Sahl ibn Bišr (Zahel or Zael)

(+ in 822 or in 850) Tabul(a) Zebelis (Verzeichnis und Ausslegungen etlicher Zufälle, welche den Menschen unversehens zuwiederfahren pflegen, nach unterschiedlichen Lauff des Monden durch die zwölff himlischen Zeichen)

Braunschweig, Andreas Moltrechten, 1669 1669 * German translation of Zahel ("Zebel") : the Moon in the twelve zodiacal signs.

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Ya'qūb al-Kindī

(c.800-870) Astrorum judices [aut Liber], de pluviis, imbribus et ventis, ac aeris mutatione

Venice, Petrus Liechtenstien, 1507 1507 * With the "De mutatione temporis" of "Gaphar" or Ja'far Indus (not to be confused with Albumasar : see Carmody, p.85).

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Abū-Bakr ibn al-Khasīb (Albubather)

(fl. c. 850) Liber Nativitatum [and] Centiloquium Divi Hermetis

Venice, Giovanni Baptista Sessa, 1501 1501 Published with "Hermes" Centiloquium and "Almansor" Judicia (or Propositiones).

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Abū-Bakr ibn al-Khasīb (Albubater)

(fl. c. 850) Liber Genethliacus sive De nativitatibus (Kitāb al-Mawālīd)

Nuremberg, Iohannes Petreius, 1540 1540 Translated by Salio or Solomon of Padua, c. 1218, or some years after (Carmody, 1956, p.136). Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos : "Sobre las natividades" (Barcelona, 1986).

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Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)

(805-886) Flores astrologie

Latin translation of the Kitāb tahāwīl sini al-'ālam, Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1488 [and] Venice, Johannes Baptista Sessa, 1506 1488

1506 Short treatise related to the interpretation of the revolution of the year (Spring equinox Ingress chart). See David Juste notice. English translation by James Holden (AFA, Tempe AZ, 2008).

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Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)

(805-886) De magnis conjunctionibus, annorum revolutionibus, ac eorum profectionibus

Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1489 1489 On the great conjunctions of Jupiter-Saturn and other mundane operators : the chief work of the most influential Arabic astrologer.

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Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)

(805-886) De magnis conjunctionibus, annorum revolutionibus, ac eorum profectionibus

Venice, Iacobus Pentius (Giacomo Penzio de Leucho) for Melchiorre Sessa, 1515 1515 *

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Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī (Albumasar)

(805-886) Introductorium in astronomiam

Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1489 [and] Venise, Jacob Pentius for Melchior Sessa, 1506 1489

1506 Latin translation by Hermann of Carinthia or Dalmatia (c.1110-1154). On this translator, see the article of Stipe Kutleša : "Hermann of Dalmatia", in Prolegomena #3, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, 2004.

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"Almansor" Judicia seu Propositiones [Propositiones ad Saracenorum regem]

Venice, heirs of Octavius Scoti, 1519 [and] in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 1519

1533 * Collection of 150 aphorisms, dedicated to the calif Abū Sālih al-Mansūr (see Carmody, p.132). Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985), English translation by James Holden (AFA, Tempe AZ, 2008).

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"Almansor" Propositiones ad Saracenorum regem

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 1551 * *

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Bethen (Bethem) Centiloquium [and] De horis planetarum [and] De significatione triplicitatum ortus

Latin translations in Venice, Bonetus Locatellus, 1493 [and] in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 1493

1533 * Collection of aphorisms, and some pages on planetary hours, and on triplicities. See David Juste notice. Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985).

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Bethen (Bethem) Centiloquium [and] De horis planetarum

Edited with Nicolaus Pruckner's reprint of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1551 1551 * *

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al-Qalandar (Alchandreus, Arcandam ...) Livre des predictions d'Astrologie

Edited by Antoine Mizauld, Paris, Jean Foucher, 1563 910 ?

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al-Râzî = Rhazes

(Almansor Rhazi)

(ca. 865-932) Liber nonus

Pavia, ca. 1497 1497 * Iatromathematical (astromedical) treatise with the commentary of Johannes Matthaeus of Ferrara.

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Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)

(+ c. 967) Libellus Ysagogicus, id est Iudiciorum Astrorum [Liber introductorius]

Venice, brothers Giovanni & Giorgio Forlivio, 1491 1491 * With the commentary of John of Saxe (1331). Incomplete copy with manuscript notes.

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Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)

(+ c. 967) Preclarum Summi in Astrorum Scientia Principis

Edition Antonio Fanti, Venice, Peter Liechtenstein, 1521 1521 * First known Latin editions in 1473 (Bologna), 1481 (Venice) and 1483 (Venice). Translated by John of Seville. "a complete presentation of astrological practices and materials" (Carmody, p.144).

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Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)

(+ c. 967) Iudiciorum astrorum Isagoge

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1521 1521 * With the commentary of Jean Danko de Saxe.

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Alī al-Qabī'sī (Alcabitius)

(+ c. 967) Astronomie judiciarie principia tractans cum Ioannis Saxonii commentario

[c. 948] ; Lyon, printed by Guillaume Huyon for Barthelemy Trot, 1523 1523 A best-seller of Arabian astrology, published with commentary by the Parisian astronomer Jean Danko de Saxe, and a small treatise of infirmities by Pierre Turrel, the "Tractaculus infirmitatum".

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Anonymous Massekhet HaHammah [The Blessing of the Sun]

Compiled and translated with commentary by Abe Friedman, 2008 2008 First attestation of the oldest part of this ritualist text, partially astrological : 10th century. The portraits for Mercury and Moon complexions are significative of the Jewish inversion of the original Babylonian significations. "A person who is born under Mercury will be an enlightened and wise man, because Mercury is the sun's scribe. A person who is born under the moon will be a man who suffers illness, building up and tearing down ..."

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al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham

(Alhazen, Abulhazen)

(c. 965-1038) De aspectibus

BSB (Munich) manuscript : Clm 10269, [S.l.], beginning 14th c. 1315 Technical manual of the famous physicist. Latin manuscript translation.

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Kūshyār ibn Labbān

/ Mohammad Bagheri Books I and IV of Kūshyār ibn Labbān's Jāmic Zīj: An Arabic Astronomical Handbook by an Eleventh-Century Iranian Scholar

D TH Utrecht University, 2006 2006 * A study of the Astronomical Tables (Zij) of the Iranian astronomer Kūshyār ibn Labbān (ca. 963-1048). The Tables have been written around 1020.

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Bagheri

al-Bīrūnī Muhammad

(973-1049) The book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology (Kitāb al-Tafhīm)

[1029] ; English translation Ramsey Wright, London, Luzac, 1934 1934 *

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al-Bīrūnī Muhammad

(973-1049) Alberuni's India : An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about A.D. 1030

English ed. Edward Sachau, London, Trübner, 1888, 2 vols. On Indian astrology and related subjects, see chap. 32-62 (chronology and astronomy), chap. 75-80 (fast and festive days, astrology).

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al-Bīrūnī Muhammad

(973-1049) The Chronology of ancient Nations (Athār-ul-Bākiya)

English ed. Edward Sachau, London, William Allen, 1879 See particularly the last chapter on lunar stations and their rising and setting.

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Ali Abū al-Hasan ibn Abī al-Rijāl (Haly Abenragel or Haly or Albohazen Haly)

(965-1050) Preclarissimus liber completus in judiciis astrorum [or] Libri de judiciis astrorum (Kitāb al-bāri' fī akhām an-nujūm)

Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1485 [then] Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1551 (3rd edition?) c. 1040

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1551 Famous compilation covering the four main branches of Medieval astrology (interrogations, nativities, elections, revolutions). See also the French translation of 1430 by Guillaume Harnoys (at the expense of John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford) under the title "Jugements d'Astronomie" (Paris BnF, ms. fr. 1352).

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Anonymous Liber novem judicum in judiciis astrorum

[c. 1150] ; Venice, Peter Liechtenstein, 1509 1150

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1509 * A famous compilation from Dorotheus and Arabic astrologers and astronomers : al-Kindī, 'Umar ibn al-Farrukhān al-Tabarī, Sahl ibn Bišr, "Aristotle", Abū 'Alī al-Khayyāt, and Jirjis. Translations from Arabic probably supervised by Hermann of Carinthia and Hugo of Santalla (mid-twelfth century) : See David Juste notice.

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Abraham Ibn Ezra

(1089-1167) De nativitatibus

[c.1154] ; Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1485 1154

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1485 On interpretation of nativities. See Meira Epstein's article (CURA) and David Juste notice (Warburg's Bibliotheca Astrologica Latina Numerica). Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Madrid, 1981).

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Ibn Ezra

Abraham Ibn Ezra

(1089-1167) In re judiciali opera [Astrological works]

Latin translation Pietro de Abano, Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein, 1507 1507 Contains the following treatises, the second one having been judged as spurious : Introductorium quod dicitur principium sapientie, Liber rationum, Liber nativitatum & revolutionum earum, Liber interrogationum, Liber electionum, Liber luminarium & est de cognitione diei cretici seu de cognitione cause crisis, Liber conjunctionum planetarum & revolutionum annorum mundi qui dicitur de mundo vel seculo, including some commented works on Bethen.

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A. F. Mehren

(1822-1907) Vues d'Avicenne sur l'astrologie et sur le rapport de la responsabilité humaine avec le destin

in Le Museon 3, Louvain 1884 ; Louvain, C. Peeters, 1885 1885 * *

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Edward Kennedy A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 46 part 2, Philadelphia, 1956 ; Diane Publishing 1956 *

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Lester J. Ness Astrology and Judaism in Late Antiquity

D. TH. Miami University, 1990 1990 Internet version of the doctoral thesis of Lester Ness. A revised version was published in 1999 : "Written in the Stars" (Warren Center PA, Shangri-La Publications).

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Stefano Buscherini La teoria delle congiunzioni Giove-Saturno tra Tardo Antico e Alto Medioevo

D. TH. 2006 ; Bologna, 2007 2006 Doctoral thesis on the theory of the great conjunctions of Jupiter-Saturn, especially in Zoroastrian Sassanid and Arabic astrologies.

Università di Bologna

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Buscherini

Montserrat Díaz Fajardo Tasyīr y proyección de rayos en textos astrológicos magrebíes

D TH Universidad de Barcelona, 2008 2008 * A critical edition of four texts by Maghrib astrologers, Ali Abū al-Hasan ibn Abī al-Rijāl (the famous Haly) and three authors of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries : Ibn Azzūz (Abū al-Qāsim ibn al-Hayyāy Azzūz al-Qusantīnī ; died 1354), Ibn Qunfud (Ahmad b. Hasan b. Alī b. Qunfud al-Qusantīnī ; 1339-1407), and al-Baqqār (Abū Abd Allāh al-Baqqār ; fl. 1415).

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Díaz Fajardo

Kevin van Bladel The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science

Oxford University Press (US), 2009 2009 "A major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus." See Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Y. Tzvi Langermann.

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9- Pre-Columbian Astrology (Native American cultures)

Alberto Escalona Ramos

(1908-1960) Cronología y astronomía maya-mexica

México, Fides, 1940 1940 *

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10- Medieval Astrology (Christian, including Byzantine area)

Alcuin of York

(735-804) De Cursu Et Saltu Lunae [and] De Bissexto

in ed. Migne, Patrologia Latina, Paris, Garnier, 1863 1863 * See cc. 979-1002.

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Alcuin

Eginhard

(ca. 770-840) Annales: Vie de Charlemagne

éd. François Guizot, Paris, J.-L.-J. Brière, 1824 1824 * On Alcuin and Charlemagne's interest for astrology.

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Eginhard

Honorius of Autun

(died ca. 1151) De imagine mundi

Nuremberg, [Anton Koberger], ca. 1472 1472 Popular cosmological treatise.

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Hildegard of Bingen

(1098-1179) Causae et curae

ed. Paulus Kaiser, Leipzig, Teubner, 1903 1903 * Medical treatise including a neo-astrological schema : the influence of the Moon after one of the thirty days of the month at the conception moment (see p. 235-42).

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Manuel I Komnenos

& Michael Glycas "Manuel I Komnenos and Michael Glycas: A Twelfth-Century Defence and Refutation of Astrology"

Translation and notes by Demetra George, Culture and Cosmos, 2001-02 2001 * A pro vs anti-astrological controversy in an Orthodox theological context : a defence of astrology by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and the opportunist refutation of the theologian Michael Glycas.

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Michael Scotus

(c.1175-1234) Astrologia cum figuris

[s.l.], XIVth century XIVth An astrological work of the famous Scottish physician.

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Bartholomaeus Anglicus

(c. 1190-1250) Libro de proprietatibus rerum en romance

Toledo, Gaspar de Avila, for Joan Thomas Fabio, 1529 1235

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1529 * Spanish translation of "De proprietatibus rerum" written in c. 1235. See book VIII on astrology : "Del cielo".

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Albertus Magnus

(1193-1280) De caelo et mundo

Venice, Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1490 1490 *

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Albertus Magnus

(1193-1280) Speculum astronomiae [Liber de duabus sapientiis et de recapitulatione omnium librorum astronomi(a)e]

[Nuremberg, Hochfeder, ca. 1493/96] 1495 * A defense of the true astrology. For an English translation of this text, see Paola Zambelli : "The Speculum astronomiae and its enigma: astrology, theology, and science in Albertus Magnus and his contemporaries" (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic, 1992).

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Albertus Magnus

(1193-1280) De causis proprietatum elementorum

Magdeburg, Jacob Winther, 1506 1506 * *

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Alfonso X the Wise

(1221-1284) Tabulae astronomicae

Edition Joannes de Saxonia, Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1483 [and] Edition Johannes Lucilius Santritter, Venice, Johannes Hamman, 1492 1252

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1492 Two editions of the famous Alfonsine Tables (three copies).

BU Santiago de Compostela

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José Chabás / Bernard R. Goldstein The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo

Dordrecht (NL), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 2003 * Two partial copies on Google Books. See also by the same authors : "Las Tablas Alfonsíes de Toledo" (Toledo, Diputación Provincial de Toledo, 2008).

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Anonymous Tabulae astronomicae numeris arabicis belle scriptae

ms. BSB Clm 18927, [S.l.], 13th c. 13th *

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"Hermes" Centiloquium Hermetis

ed. Stephanus Messanensis, [Leipzig], before 1494 1262

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"Hermes" Hermetis Centum aphorismorum liber [or] Centiloquium

in Nicolaus Pruckner's edition of Firmicus Maternus, Basel, Johannes Hervagius, 1533 [and] 1551 1262

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1551 * Popular compilation of aphorisms from Arabic sources by Stefano Protonotaro da Messina, c. 1262 (see ms. Prag 1466, Carmody 1956, p.53). Famous incipit : "Sol & Luna post deum, omnium viventium vita sunt", i.e. : Sun and Moon just after god are the (source of) life of all living beings. Spanish translation by Demetrio Santos (Barcelona, 1985).

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"Hermes" De revolutionibus nativitatum

in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos edition, Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1559 1559 *

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Anonymous "L'horoscope de Baudoin de Courtenay, empereur latin d'Orient (XIIIe siècle)"

ed. Maxime Préaud, in Anagrom 3-4, 1973 c1270 * After French manuscript 1353, BnF. Incipit : "Dex [Dieu] qui fist toutes creatures", explicit : "et jasoit que li Toreaus fust alez en meson estrange en ..."

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Leopold of Austria De astrorum scientia [or] Compilatio de astrorum scientia

Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1489 c1271

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1489 In ten books. One of the most beautifully illustrated incunabula. Francis Carmody has edited in 1947 the three first books of a French manuscript translation (before 1324) : "Li compilacions de le science des estoilles".

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Guido Bonatti (Bonatus)

(1223-1297) Tractatus astronomie [or] Liber astronomicus [or] De Astronomia

ed. Johannes Angelus, Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1491 [and] Basel, [Jakob Kundig], 1550 1491

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1550 In ten chapters : A defense of astrology, on Signs and Houses, on Planets, on Conjunctions, Aphorisms, on Questions (horary), on Elections, on Revolutions and Arabian Parts, on Nativities, on Weather Prediction. "The most important astrological work produced in Latin in the thirteenth century." (Thorndike 2, 1923, p.826). Translated by Robert Hand (books 1-4) in 1994-1996, and by Benjamin Dykes (books 1-10) in 2007. Basel's edition includes a commentary by George of Trebizond alias Trapezuntius (1395/6-1484) on ps-Ptolemy's Centiloquium.

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Guido Bonatti (Bonatus)

(1223-1297) Anima Astrologiae, or A Guide for Astrologers, being the considerations of the famous Guido Bonatus faithfully rendred into English [by Henry Coley]

London, Benjamin Harris, 1676 1491

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1676 English translation of Bonatus's "Liber astronomicus" by Henry Coley, edited by William Lilly. The choice aphorisms from Cardanus are not included in this copy. A facsimile of the edition of 1886, has been published in Washington (American Federation of Astrologers, 1970) then in London (Regulus, 1986) with different pagination. Word copy of the translation (in 2000).

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Pietro d'Abano

(c. 1250-1316) De signis celestibus eorumque significatione et potestate

XVth century manuscript. * * Tables with zodiacal descriptions (p.131-176).

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Anianus

(fl. ca. 1300 ?) Compotus cum commento

[Basel, Lienhart Ysenhut, ca. 1490-95] and Paris, Jean Treperel, 1511 c1490

1511 * Astro Palmistry manual. Also printed in Lyons by Jehan Siber (ca. 1490).

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Francesco Stabili (Cecco d'Ascoli)

(1267-1327) L'Acerba de l'ordine di Cieli con el commento novamente trovato ...

[1326] ; Venice, Marchio Sessa & Piero di Ravani Bersano, 1516 1516 First edition : Brescia (c.1473). Cecco was condemned by the Inquisition and burned in Florence. "The spirit that enabled Cecco d'Ascoli to face execution was far more emancipated than that which animated his inquisitors." (Wedel 1920)

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Francesco Stabili (Cecco d'Ascoli)

(1267-1327) L'Acerba de l'ordine di Cieli

[1326] ; Venice, Candido de Benedetto Bendoni, 1550 1550 * Another Venetian edition.

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Cecco d'Ascoli

(1267-1327) L'Acerba (in 5 books)

[1326] ; French translation Marie-Claude Ramain, CURA, 2002 2002 * First translation into French.

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Anonymous Breviarium. De signis et figuris solis et lunae

ms BSB Clm 17030, [s.l.], 1320 1320 A beautiful illustrated manuscript.

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Walter Burley (Gualterus Burlaeus)

(ca. 1275-1345) De vita et moribus philosophorum

Nuremberg, ca. 1472 1472 * The Lives of Philosophers by the 14th c. logician (see the first chapter on Thales' astronomy/logy).

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Anonymous "Traités en vers provençaux sur l'astrologie et la géomancie"

ms, Toulouse or Montpellier, ca. 1332 ; ed. Paul Meyer, in Romania, n.26, 1897 c1332

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1897 * Extracts of two versified astro-geomantical treatises in Provençal dialect, with obscurantist anti-astrological comments.

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Firmin de Beauval (or Belleval)

(fl. 1338-1345) Opusculum repertorii pronosticon in mutationes aeris tam via astrologica quam metheorologica

Venice, Erhard Ratdolt de Augusta, 1485 1485 Nice edition, printed with a "Libellus de medicorum astrologia" of a Pseudo-Hippocrates, identified as Imbrasius Ephesius by Hillard, and translated by Pietro de Abano.

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Levi ben Gershom (Leo de Balneolis)

(1288-1344) Levi Ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345

ed.-tr. Bernard Goldstein & David Pingree, Volume 80.6 of Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1990 c1344

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1990 Critical edition of Gerson's Prognostication on the Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction of 1345.

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John Ashenden (Eschuid)

(fl. 1335-1365) Summa astrologiae judicialis de accidentibus mundi quae anglicana vulgo nuncupatur

[1347-1348] ; ed. Iohannes Lucilius Santritter of Heilbronn, Venice, Franciscus Bolanus, 1489 1347

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1489 Mainly mundane and meteorological astrology. The first British astrologer, professor at Oxford, rejected the electional and horary astrologies which made the fortune of the English school three centuries later. "The foremost work by England's foremost medieval astrologer." (Carey 1992, p.58)

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Anonymous Miscellany with various astronomical, calendrical, medical, and philosophical texts

England, 14th century : British Library: Harley MS 3719, 282 ff. 14th * Latin and British manuscript with astrological diagrams, wheel charts and a bloodletting zodiac man (ff. 155-159).

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Anonymous Calendarium cum figuris et regulis computi astronomici et versibus de singulis mensibus

München, BSB Clm 13076, [S.l.], 1356 1356 *

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Anonymous Kalender und Praktika auf die Jahre 1368-1405

München, BSB Cgm 32 c1367 Early German calendar.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

(13431400) Treatise on the Astrolabe

ed. Andrew Edmund Brae, London, John Russell Smith, 1870 [and] ed. Walter W. Skeat (1835-1912), London, Oxford University Press, 1968 [and edition of 1872] 1391

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1968 * Brae's edition comes with several appendices, Skeat's edition with the "Astrolabium Messehalle" (Messahallah) in Latin, from a manuscript of the Cambridge University library.

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Garth Chivalle Carpenter Chaucer's Solar Pageant: an Astrological Reading of the Canterbury Tales

Philosophy D. TH., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1997 1997 * Chaucer would have written his Tales for his ten-year old son, as an illustrated didactical manual for understanding the principles of astrology. "Chaucer makes two rounds of the zodiac, starting with the Knight's Tale aligned with Aries (the head), replete with pagan astrological practices, completing the sequence with the Parson's Tale, aligned with Pisces (the feet), in which the pilgrims are exhorted to save their souls by repentance."

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Antonio di Monte Ulmi (Montulmo) De judiciis nativitatum

[1394] ; Nuremberg, Johannes Petreius, 1540 1394

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Charles Jourdain "Nicolas Oresme et les astrologues de la cour de Charles V"

in Revue des Questions Historiques 18, 1875 1875 * Anti-astrological. On Oresme and his "Livre de divinacions" (c. 1362), see rather this study (CURA, 2000).

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Lubert Hautschild /

Léopold Delisle

(1826-1910) "Notice sur un livre d'astrologie de Jean duc de Berri"

in Bulletin du Bibliophile, 33 ; Paris, Librairie Techener, 1896 1896 * On two mediaeval texts : "De quatuor elementis et duodecim signis" and "De planetis", in an astrological manuscript in Latin by Lubert Hautschild (1347-1417), compiled by Georgius Zothorus.

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Duc de Berry /

Franz Cumont

(1868-1947) "Astrologica"

in Revue Archéologique, 16.1 ; Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1915 1915 * On the "Très riches Heures du duc de Berry".

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