Astrologers at Work: Essays on the Practices and Techniques of Astrology in Memory of Helena Avelar: Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, cartea 14
Luís Ribeiro, Charles Burnetten Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 noi 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004745315
ISBN-10: 9004745319
Pagini: 564
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
ISBN-10: 9004745319
Pagini: 564
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
Notă biografică
Luís Campos Ribeiro (PhD, University of Lisbon, 2021) is a historian of science and art and a researcher at CIUHCT, University of Lisbon, specializing in the history of astrology and astronomy.
Charles Burnett (BA, PhD Cambridge), Professor Emeritus of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London and Fellow of the British Academy. His research has concentrated on the translations of Arabic texts into Latin in the Middle Ages.
Charles Burnett (BA, PhD Cambridge), Professor Emeritus of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London and Fellow of the British Academy. His research has concentrated on the translations of Arabic texts into Latin in the Middle Ages.
Cuprins
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Astrological Symbols
Notes on Contributors
1 The Origins of Questions in Astrology
Dorian Greenbaum
2 The Ruling Planet (Almuten) in the Latin Tradition
David Juste
3 Sahl ibn Bishr, the Choice Nuggets of Judgement or 50 Precepts, in Arabic and Its Latin and Hebrew Versions
Charles Burnett
4 al-Ashraf ˁUmar’s Tabṣira, Chapter xl.1
An election table as a tool for an astrologer?
Petra G. Schmidl
5 A Buddhist Astrologer and Monk in the Twelfth Century: Reading a Japanese Horoscope
Jeffrey Kotyk
6 Some Astrological Practices in Light of the Horoscopes of the Emperor Zeno’s Anonymous Astrologer
Levente László
7 The Astrology of Nativities in Richard de Fournival’s Nativitas and in the Speculum Astronomiae
Jean-Patrice Boudet and Christopher Lucken
8 John of Lübeck’s Antichrist-Prediction (1474): A Unique Astrological Practice
Stephan Heilen
9 From Medieval to Renaissance Astrology: Marsilio Ficino’s Astrological Writings and Practices, A Survey
H. Darrel Rutkin
10 The Changing Meaning of Astrological Elections: Ficino and the Astrologers
Steven Vanden Broecke
11 Ignorance, Pitfalls and Scribal Errors: On the Proper Assessment of Historical Horoscopes of the Early Modern Period
Günther Oestmann
12 Astrology by Numbers: Early Modern Quantification of Planetary Influence
Luís Campos Ribeiro
13 The Private Workings of a Very Public Astrologer: William Lilly (1602–1681)
Susan Ward
Helena Avelar (1964–2021)
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Terms, People, and Places
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Astrological Symbols
Notes on Contributors
1 The Origins of Questions in Astrology
Dorian Greenbaum
2 The Ruling Planet (Almuten) in the Latin Tradition
David Juste
3 Sahl ibn Bishr, the Choice Nuggets of Judgement or 50 Precepts, in Arabic and Its Latin and Hebrew Versions
Charles Burnett
4 al-Ashraf ˁUmar’s Tabṣira, Chapter xl.1
An election table as a tool for an astrologer?
Petra G. Schmidl
5 A Buddhist Astrologer and Monk in the Twelfth Century: Reading a Japanese Horoscope
Jeffrey Kotyk
6 Some Astrological Practices in Light of the Horoscopes of the Emperor Zeno’s Anonymous Astrologer
Levente László
7 The Astrology of Nativities in Richard de Fournival’s Nativitas and in the Speculum Astronomiae
Jean-Patrice Boudet and Christopher Lucken
8 John of Lübeck’s Antichrist-Prediction (1474): A Unique Astrological Practice
Stephan Heilen
9 From Medieval to Renaissance Astrology: Marsilio Ficino’s Astrological Writings and Practices, A Survey
H. Darrel Rutkin
10 The Changing Meaning of Astrological Elections: Ficino and the Astrologers
Steven Vanden Broecke
11 Ignorance, Pitfalls and Scribal Errors: On the Proper Assessment of Historical Horoscopes of the Early Modern Period
Günther Oestmann
12 Astrology by Numbers: Early Modern Quantification of Planetary Influence
Luís Campos Ribeiro
13 The Private Workings of a Very Public Astrologer: William Lilly (1602–1681)
Susan Ward
Helena Avelar (1964–2021)
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Terms, People, and Places