Article ID: CBB001213872

Planetary Velocities and the Astrological Month (2013)

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According to the third rule, one has to convert into degrees, by means of the appropriate table, the complete days that remain in the current month of the anniversary. [...]we have assumed that the tradition goes back to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, and we have offered the main lines for a reconstruction of the relationship between this ancient text and the medieval elaborations of this astrological theory.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Alexander
Swerdlow, Noel M.
Carman, Christián Carlos
Duke, Dennis W.
Recio, Gonzalo Luis
Emanuel Zingg
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
MHNH (Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas)
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Indian Journal of History of Science
Publishers
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Springer
Salerno Editrice
MIT Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Brill Styx
Concepts
Astronomy
Solar system; planets
Astrology
Cosmology
Moon
Primary literature (historical sources)
People
Ptolemy
Theon of Alexandria
Petrus Gallego
Goad, John
Eudoxus of Cnidos
Aryabhata I
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Renaissance
Qin dynasty (China, 221-207 B.C.)
Early modern
Modern
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Middle and Near East
China
Assyria
Spain
Institutions
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
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