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The main collection links to English-language texts directly related to astrology (from all eras).
Vettius Valens - Anthologies; translated by Mark Riley, reformated, illustrated, annotated and hyperlinked by Janegca - free to view or download  Book of Instructions in the Elements of the Art of Astrology  Guido Bonatti, Anima Astrologiae; The Astrologer's Guide - free to view or download  Claude Dariot: Briefe and Most Easie Introduction to the Stars - free to view or download  Johannes Kepler: Harmonies of the World - free to view or download 
William Lilly's 'Christian Astrology' vols I & II, retyped and annotated by Deborah Houlding - free to view or download  Luke Broughton - Elements of Astrology  C. C. Zain - Horary Astrology - free to view or download  Nicholas De Vore: Encyclopedia of Astrology - free to view or download  Rochberg: Babylonian Horoscopes - free to view on Google Books 

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Adams, Evangeline Astrology: Your PLace Among the Stars 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Abu Mashar Libri Mysteriorum; astrological metaphors (extract) 9th c. Cielo e Terra -
Al Biruni Elements of Astrology 11th c. Archive.org Amazon
Al Biruni Al Biruni's List of Parts (extract) 11th c. Skyscript -
Anonymous Mul Apin Tablets 7th c. BC Lexiline Amazon
Aratus Phenomena and Diosemeia 4th c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Blagrave, Joseph Astrological Practice of Physick 17th c. Archive.org Amazon
Blagrave, Joseph Introduction to Astrology 17th c. Archive.org -
Bonatti, Guido Anima Astrologiae; The Astrologer's Guide 13th c. Skyscript Amazon
Bonatti, Guido Liber Astronomiae extract - 4th House Elections, chaps. 1-13 13th c. Skyscript Amazon
Broughton, Luke Elements of Astrology 19th c. Archive.org Amazon
Cardan, Jerome Commentaries on the Seven Segments of Cardan 16th c. vlivina -
Cardan, Jerome Cardano's First Segment 16th c. skyscript -
Coley, Henry Ptolemy's Centiloquium 17th c. Skyscript -
Coley, Henry Clavis Astrologiae Elimata (searchable modern type) 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Coley, Henry Clavis Astrologiae Elimata (digital facsimile) 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas Astrological Judgement of Diseases (digital facsimile) 17th c. Archive.org Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas Astrological Judgement of Diseases (unformatted modern text) 17th c. EEBO Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas The English physitian & Complete Herbal 17th c. Archive.org Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas An astrologo-physical discourse of the Human Virtues in the Body of Man 17th c. Skyscript -
Culpeper, Nicholas Directory for Midwives 17th c. Archive.org -
Culpeper, Nicholas Opus Astrologicum 17th c. Archive.org -
Cumont, F. Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Dariot, Claude Briefe and Most Easie Introduction to the Stars 16th c. Archive.org -
De Vore, Nicholas Encyclopedia of Astrology 20th c. Skyscript Amazon
Dorotheus Carmen Astrologicum Books I-V, Pingree translation 1st c. Archive.org Amazon
Dorotheus Carmen Astrologicum Book I - retyped 1st c. Skyscript Amazon
Dorotheus Carmen Astrologicum Book II - retyped 1st c. Skyscript Amazon
Dorotheus Carmen Astrologicum Book III - retyped 1st c. Skyscript Amazon
Ebertin, R. Combination of Stellar Influences 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Eland, William A Tutor to Astrology 17th c. Google Books Amazon
Eutocius Greek horoscope - L497 (commented chart extract from GH) 5th c. Skyscript -
Ezra, Abraham ibn 120 Aphorisms for Astrologers 12th c. Skyscript -
Firmicus Matheseos Libri VIII (translated by Jean Rhys Bram) 4th c. Archive.org Amazon
Forman, Simon Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes 17th c. cam.ac.uk Amazon
Forman, Simon Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes (extended) 17th c. cam.ac.uk Amazon
Gadbury, John The Doctrine of Nativities & Horary Questions 17th c. Google -
Gadbury, John Nauticum Astrologicum 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Gadbury, John The Nativity of Lewis the Fourteenth, King of France 17th c. TCP Amazon
Gadbury, John Of Thefts, Fugitives & Strays &c. 17th c. Skyscript -
Galileo Notes on his own Horoscope | Nativity of Giovanni Sagredo 16th c. Skyscript -
Gerarde, John Herbal and General History of Plants 16th c. Archive.org Amazon
Griffin, Anthony An Astrological Judgement Touching Theft (facsimilie of original) 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Hyginus Astronomica Bk 2, from The Myths of Hyginus (translated and edited by Mary Grant) 1st c. ToposText Amazon
Kepler, Johannes Harmonies of the World 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Lilly, William Christian Astrology, vols I & II 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Lilly, William Christian Astrology, vols: I, II & III (facsimile of original) 17th c. Archive.org -
Lilly, William History of His Life and Times together with his Life & Death of King Charles I 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Lilly, William Christian Astrology & Lilly: various extracts & downloads 17th c. Skyscript -
Lilly, William Collection of Ancient & Modern Prophecies 17th c. Archive.org -
Lilly, William England's Prophetical Merlin 17th c. Archive.org -
Lilly, William Starry Messenger 17th c. Archive.org -
Lilly, William Supernatural Sights and Apparitions 17th c. Astrology Answers -
Lilly, William Extensive list of original works 17th c. Online Books -
Manilius Astronomica (Goold translation, 1977) 1st c. Archive.org Amazon
Manilius The Sphere of Manilius (Sherburne's translation of book I, 1674) 1st c. Google Books -
Manilius Astronomica (Creech translation, 1697) 1st c. EEBO -
Masha'allah What is reception? (Extract - chap. 1 - from 'On Reception') 8th c. Skyscript Amazon
Michelsen, N. The American Book of Tables 1st c. Archive.org Amazon
Middleton, John Practical Astrology 17th c. Google Books Amazon
Morin, Jean Baptiste Cabal of the 12 Houses Astrological 17th c. Skyscript -
Morin, Jean Baptiste Astrologia Gallica Book 21 - Synthesis 17th c. Archive.org Amazon
Napier, Richard Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes 17th c. cam.ac.uk Amazon
Napier, Richard Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes (extended) 17th c. cam.ac.uk Amazon
Neugebauer & Van Hoesen Greek Horoscopes 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Neve, Jeffery Judicium Astrologicum: 207 horaries (MS Ashmole 209) 17th c. Skyscript -
Palchus Ancient horary: Safety of a Ship at Sea 5th c. Skyscript -
Parker, Derek A History of Astrology | online text 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Partridge, John Mikropanastron (Vade Mecum) 17th c. Google -
Partridge, John Opus Reformatum or Treatise of Astrology 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Placidus Primum Mobile - Cooper translation | [Commented chart extract] 17th c. Google Books Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Almagest - Catesby Taliaferro translation 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemy's catalogue of stars: a revision of the Almagest (C.H.F. Peters) 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Almagest - Toomer translation 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Tetrabiblos - Robbins translation (text) 2nd c. LacusCurtius Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Tetrabiblos - Robbins translation (digital book) 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Tetrabiblos - Ashmand translation (text) 2nd c. Sacred Texts Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius Tetrabiblos - Ashmand translation (digital book) 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Ptolemy, (Pseudo) Centiloquium 2nd c. Skyscript -
Ramesey, William Astrology Restored, Bk IV (Mundane Astrology) 17th c. Archive.org Amazon
Ramesey, William Astrology Restored, Bk IV (retyped) 17th c. Skyscript Amazon
Ramesey, William Astrology Restored, full text as HTML 17th c. EEBO Amazon
Raphael Manual of Astrology 19th c. Archive.org Amazon
Reiner, Erica Astral Magic in Babylonia 21st c. Google Amazon
Robson, Vivian Astrology & Sex (1963) 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Robson, Vivian Electional Astrology (1937) 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Robson, Vivian The Fixed Stars & Constellations in Astrology (1923) 20th c. Archive.org Amazon
Rochberg, Francesca Babylonian Horoscopes 21st c. Google Amazon
Sahl / Zael De Electionibus (Of Elections) - translated by C. M. Crofts (1985) 9th c. Glasgow Uni. Amazon
Saunders, Richard Astrological Judgement & Practice of Physick 17th c. Archive.org Amazon
Schoener, Johannes Schoener's table of dignity scores (extract from Opusculum Astrologicum, II.39) 17th c. Skyscript -
Sibly, Ebenezer Key to Physic and the Occult Sciences 18th c. Archive.org Amazon
Sibly, Ebenezer Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology 18th c. Archive.org Amazon
Sibly, Ebenezer Sibly's Historical Horoscopes: 35 Famous nativities extracted from Celestial Science of Astrology 18th c. Skyscript -
Thompson, R. Campbell Reports of the Magicians & Astrologers of Nineveh & Babylon 20th c. Adelaide.edu Amazon
Thrasher, William Jubar Astrologicum 17th c. Google Books Amazon
Valens, Vettius Anthologies (Bks 1-9) Mark Riley translation (raw) 2nd c. csus.edu Amazon
Valens, Vettius Anthologies (Riley trans: reformatted, hyperlinked, with charts by Janegca) 2nd c. Janegca Amazon
Zadkiel Grammar of Astrology 19th c. Archive.org Amazon
Zadkiel Tables for calculating nativities 19th c. Archive.org Amazon
Zain, C. C. Doctrine of Horary Astrology 19th c. Archive.org Amazon
Zoroaster The Chaldæan Oracles ancient fragments Esotericarchives Amazon
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Partly astrological - useful for historical research or philosophical.

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Al Kindi Metaphysics 9 th c. Archive.org Amazon
Agrippa, Cornelius Three books of Occult Philosophy 16 th c. Archive.org Amazon
Agrippa, CorneliusFourth Book of Occult Philosophy (Geomancy) 16 th c. Archive.org Amazon
Al Biruni Chronology of Ancient Nations 11th c. Archive.org Amazon
Al Biruni India vol. I 11th c. Archive.org Amazon
Al Biruni India vol. II 11th c. Archive.org Amazon
Aristotle Metaphysics 4th c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Aristotle Physics 4th c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Aristotle On the Soul 4th c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Aristotle On the Heavens 4th c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Aristotle Meteorologica 4th c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Ashmole, Elias Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 1652 Archive.org Amazon
Dee, John Mysteriorum Liber Quinque (Five Books of Mystical Exercises) 1583 Esotericarchives Amazon
Dee, John Mysteriorum Book I reformatted 1583 Esotericarchives Amazon
Dee, John The Hieroglyphic Monad 1564 Esotericarchives Amazon
Magnus, Albertus Secrets of Albertus Magnus: Herbs, stones, planets 13th c. Archive.org -
Manetho (Pseudo) Early History of Egypt 3 rd c. BC Archive.org Amazon
Ficino, Marsilio Book of Life 15th c. Archive.org Amazon
Galen On the Elements According to Hippocrates 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Galen On the Natural Faculties 2nd c. Archive.org Amazon
Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1632 Archive.org Amazon
Herodotus Histories of Herodotus -440 Archive.org Amazon
Hesiod Theogeny; Works and Days -700 Archive.org Amazon
Newton, Sir Isaac Principia (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) 1687 Archive.org Amazon
Osler, William The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1913 Gutenberg Amazon
Paracelsus Essential Theoretical Writings 16th c. Archive.org Amazon
Pliny the Elder Natural History: Vol I | Vol II | Vol III | Vol IV | Vol V | Vol VI | Vol VII 1 st c. Archive.org Amazon
Sennert, Daniel Thirteen Books of Natural Philosophy 1659 Archive.org Amazon
Sennert, Daniel Nine books of Physick and Chirurgery 1656 Archive.org Amazon
Swift, Jonathan Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers 1708 Gutenberg Amazon
Thorndike, Lynn History of magic and experimental science: Vol I | Vol II | Vol IV | Vol V | Vol VI 1923 GoogleAmazon
Varro On the Latin Language Vol I (good for etymology of astro-words) 1st c. BC Archive.org Amazon
SCHOLARLY
Published theses, dissertations, and peer-reviewed papers related to astrology.

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Akopyan, O. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Controversies on astrology in Renaissance Italy 2017 EThOS -
Avelar de carvalho, H. Thesis (Ph.D.) | The making of an astrologer in fifteenth-century France : the notebooks of S. Belle 2018 EThOS -
Bird, A. G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Astrology in education: an ethnography 2006 EThOS -
Carpenter, G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Chaucer's Solar Pageant: An Astrological Examination of The Canterbury Tales 1940 VUW.ac.nz -
Clarke, A. G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) and late Renaissance astrology 1985 EThOS -
Clements, J. Thesis (Ph.D.) | The intellectual and social declines of alchemy and astrology, circa 1650-1720 2017 EThOS -
Clynes, F. Thesis (Ph.D.) | An examination of the impact of the Internet on modern Western astrology 2015 uwtsd.ac.uk -
Colborn, R. M. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Manilius on the nature of the Universe : a study of the natural-philosophical teaching of the Astronomica 2015 ORA -
Cornelius, G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Field of omens : a study in inductive divination 2009 EThOS -
Curry, P. M. Thesis (Ph.D.) | The decline of astrology in early modern England 1642-1800 1986 EThOS Amazon
Gansten, M. Research paper | Platikos and moirikos: Ancient Horoscopic Practice in the Light of Vettius Valens’ Anthologies 2023 Brill -
Greenbaum, D. G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | The Daimon in Hellenistic astrology : Origins and influence 2009 EThOS Amazon
Harris, P. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Application of astrology to health psychology : psychological and astrological factors in fertility treatment 2005 soton.ac.uk -
Loosmann, J. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Astrological consulting in the area of business consulting : an empirical investigation 2014 EThOS -
Lipscomb, L. M. Thesis (Ph.D.) | On the Cusp of Legitimacy: Professionalization in the Field of Astrology 2020 Skyscript -
Mace, H. E. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Firmicus Maternus' Mathesis and the intellectual culture of the fourth century AD 2017 EThOS -
Mitchell, C. J. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Roger of Hereford's 'Judicial Astrology' : England's first astrology book? 2023 EThOS Amazon
Phillipson, G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Astrology and truth: a context in contemporary epistemology 2020 uwtsd.ac.uk -
Ridder-Patrick, J. H. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Astrology in Early Modern Scotland ca. 1560-1726 2012 ERA -
Smithuis, R. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Abraham ibn Ezra the astrologer and the transmission of Arabic science to the Christian West 2004 EThOS -
Snedegar, K. V. Thesis (Ph.D.) | John Ashenden and the Scientia astrorum Mertonensis : with an edition of Ashenden's Pronosticationes 1988 ORA -
Startup, M. J. Thesis (Ph.D.) | The validity of astrological theory applied to personality, with reference to the angular separation of planets 1984 EThOS -
Vladimirou, A. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Byzantine astrology in the eleventh century 2006 EThOS -
Voss, A. M. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Magic, astrology and music: Marsilio Ficino's astrological music therapy and his role as a Renaissance magus 1992 EThOS -
Wiggin, P. D. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Moore's Almanac and eighteenth-century English astrology 2002 EThOS -
Woodcraft, D. R. Thesis (Ph.D.) | A politick engine': astrology and politics 1678-1715 1997 EThOS -
Wright, P. W. G. Thesis (Ph.D.) | Astrology in mid-seventeenth-century England : a sociological analysis 1983 EThOS -
JOURNALS
Astrological Journals with free access to published content or sample issues.

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Saptarishis Saptarishis Astrology Magazine Various issues available for free online access Yes Info
Skyscript Skyscript Newsletter Issue 4, Dec 1995 Yes Info
OPA The Evolving Astrologer Various issues available for free online access Yes Info
Classified The Impractical Astrologer (Satire) Issue 1, Dec 1995 No OOP / Info
Ascella The Traditional Astrologer Issue 16, March 1998 No OOP / Info
LATIN
Important astro-works in Greek, Latin or other older languages.

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Abu Ma'shar (Albumasar) Eight Treatises regarding Great Conjunctions, Annual Revolutions, Profections 9th c. LOC
Abu Bakr (Albubater) De nativitatibus 9th c. Warburg
Al Khayyat (Albohali) Albohali Arabis Astrologi ... De Judiciis Nativitatum (Book on the Judgement of Nativities) 9th c. LOC
Al Qabisi (Alcabitius) Introduction to the Art of Judgments of the Stars - Venice 1512 | John of Saxony ed. with commentary - Lyon 1523 10th c. LOC
Al Rijal (Haly Abenragel) De Judiciis Astrorum (Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars) - Augsburg 1483 | - Venice 1523 | - Basel 1551 11th c. LOC
Anonymous Capitula Almansoris (collection of aphorisms) 12th c. Warburg
Aratus Phaenomena 4th c. BC Archive.org
Bethen Centiloquium | De horis planetarum ? Warburg
Bonatti, Guido Foroliviensis Mathematici De Astronomia Tractatvs X 1550 Archive.org
Cardan Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos with commentary added by Hieronymi Cardani 16th c. LOC
Copernicus, Nicolaus De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium 1543 Amazon
Ezra Liber de nativitatibus 12th c. Archive.org
Firmicus Matheseos Libri VIII - Venice 1497 | - Venice 1499 | - Regiio, 1503 | - Basel, 1553 | - Kroll, 1897 4th c. Archive.org
Gauricus Tractatus astrologicus 16th c. Warburg
Hermes Centiloquium ? Warburg
Hispalensis (John of Seville) Isagoge in Astrologiam 1548 Skyscript
Hyginus, Gaius Julius De astronomia 1st c. LOC
Junctinus (Giuntini) Opera Astronomica (Speculum Astrologiae) 1573 Archive.org
Leupoldus De Astrorum Scientia 1489 Archive.org
Manilius Astronomica - Ferrara, 1461 | - Reggio, 1503 | - Scaliger, 1600 | - Breiter, 1907 | Latin library 1st c. Archive.org
Masha'allah Cogitatione | Revolutionibus | Signific.. planetarum in nativitate | Rebus eclipsis | Receptionis 9th c. Warburg
Morin Astrologia Gallica 1661 Archive.org
Omar De nativitatibus 8th c. Warburg
Pierre d’Ailly Vigintiloquium de concordia astronomice... Elucidarium astronomice concordie 15th c. Warburg
Ptolemy Quadripartitum (Plato de Tivoli, 12th cent) | Venice, 1493 | Commentary attributed to Proclus 2nd c. Ass.
Schoener, Johannes Opus Astrologicum (Astrological Treatise) 1539 LOC
Sahl (Zael) Introductorium | Quinquaginta precepta | De electionibus 9th c. Warburg

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