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Right, that's sort of the end result of the effect I meant - when I said 'climes' I meant the sum total of them, so the region of the world in which people live basically. I tried to look into this a ...

Hi Paul

I do think though that there's something puzzling about the translation as you've provided it, it seems to not make much sense of what we know to be going on and I wonder if it's something ...

Hi Deb,

I also wish you a (bit late) merry Christmas!

I agree that the details of Valens’s charts should be investigated further, preferably together with a new and more reliable translation o ...

Let me have a few remarks to the essay.

To Valens’s lifetime (p. 1 and n. 3 on p. 9). The latest nativity used by Valens (2.27.1–2) was dated to 10 August 188 by Neugebauer and van Hoesen (GH p ...

Hi Astrojin,

I'm really glad to hear this! Discourses are one of a kind, at least I don't know any other texts giving such intimate insight into an astrology master's relationship with his pupil. I ...

Hi Astrojin,

Thank you! Discourses consist of 97 chapters in Greek, and there is an appendix of about 25 chapters, which is only partially extant in Greek but fully in Latin. These are of various l ...

paul shared a link 11 days ago here.. thanks...

http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10941&sid=ba31b5f25bb1d6785d0b5815b674cff2

If you please to follow my link, you'll see it's som ...

If you like to study the source texts of Hellenistic and Byzantine astrology directly, this may interest you:
http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10953

Dear Skyreaders,

In the past fourteen years, you may have met my contributions in the traditional section of this forum, so perhaps I don’t need to introduce myself. But what I’d like to draw y ...

Levente, does Mathesis 4.25 imply that aspects (applications and separations) are blocked by sign boundaries? And are there other Hellenistic sources that imply this?

Does it indicate some kind of ...

Hi Dimitar,

Of course, we would be better informed about the issue if someone took up the arduous task to sift through the published texts so that every elucidating passage on the exact meaning of ...

I've skipped this:

1. Are the constellations interchangeable with the signs in most authors, and isn't this plain clear from the term zoidion?

They are, it is. Smile

Ptolemy might have thought of the tropical frame when talking about the sign in its entirety, and the constellational when describing its parts. At least this is how the commentators seem to interpret ...

I checked a couple of medieval and early modern sources, but probably not the right ones to find anything about Ptolemy's meteorological astrology. Then I turned to the commentaries, and it seems that ...