History Of Horoscopic Astrology

Author : James H. Holden
Publisher : American Federation of Astr
ISBN 13 : 0866904638
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Horoscopic Astrology written by James H. Holden and published by American Federation of Astr. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly researched book is a history of the development of Western horoscopic astrology from its origin among the Babylonians and its subsequent creation in its present form by the Alexandrians down to modern times. Special attention is given to background history and to the working conditions and techniques used by astrologers during the last two thousand years. Numerous footnotes provide additional information and bibliographic references. A separate bibliography lists reference sources of particular importance. Two comprehensive indices containing more than 2,800 individual entries enable the reader to locate persons, publishers, topics, and book and periodical titles that are mentioned in the history. The book also contains discussions of several questions and topics relating to astrology. James Herschel Holden is Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers and has been especially interested in the history of astrology.

Author : James Herschel Holden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788669046386
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Horoscopic Astrology written by James Herschel Holden and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Beck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470775378
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Ancient Astrology written by Roger Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of Ancient Astrology explores the theory and practice of astrology from Babylon to Ancient Greece and Rome and its cultural and political impact on ancient societies. Discusses the union between early astrology and astronomy, in contrast to the modern dichotomy between science and superstition. Explains the ancient understanding of the zodiac and its twelve signs, the seven planets, and the fixed circle of 'places' against which the signs and planets revolve. Demonstrates how to construct and interpret a horoscope in the ancient manner, using original ancient horoscopes and handbooks. Considers the relevance of ancient astrology today.

Author : Günther Oestmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110925125
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horoscopes and Public Spheres written by Günther Oestmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the specific role of horoscopic astrology in Western culture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Focusing on the public appearance of astrological rhetoric, the essays break new ground for a better understanding of the function of horoscopes in public discourse. The volume's three parts address the use of imperial horoscopes in late antiquity, the transformation of doctrines and rhetorics in Islamic medieval contexts, and the important status of astrology in early modern Europe. The combination of in-depth historical studies and methodological considerations results in an important contribution to religious and cultural studies.

Author : Chris Brennan
Publisher : Amor Fati Publications
ISBN 13 : 0998588903
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellenistic Astrology written by Chris Brennan and published by Amor Fati Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was practiced in the Mediterranean region from approximately the first century BCE until the seventh century CE. It is the source of many of the modern traditions of astrology that still flourish around the world today, although it is only recently that many of the surviving texts of this tradition have become available again for astrologers to study. Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune is one of the first comprehensive surveys of this tradition in modern times. The book covers the history, philosophy, and techniques of ancient astrology, with a special focus on demonstrating how many of the fundamental concepts underlying the practice of western astrology originated during the Hellenistic period.

Author : S. J. Tester
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851152554
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Astrology written by S. J. Tester and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1987 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks added numerology, geometryand rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval times where it flourished until the shift of ideas during the Renaissance.

Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743268954
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fated Sky written by Benson Bobrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Fated Sky' looks at famous figures and important historical events that were influenced by astrology.

Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astrology written by Peter Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the destiny of mankind is somehow linked to the stars goes back over 2500 years. A powerful force in the intellectual life of Greece and Rome, astrology was condemned to near-extinction by the rise of Christianity, but was reawakened in the Middle Ages and come to permeate philosophy, literature and art. Always liable to be debased and manipulated, the principles of astrology were nevertheless for many centuries an accepted facet of religious and scientific thought and daily life.

Author : John Filbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850303933
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astronomy for Astrologers written by John Filbey and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth treatment of astronomical factors which bear most heavily on astrological interpretation.

Author : Martin Gansten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433716
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewel of Annual Astrology written by Martin Gansten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajña, court astrologer to Shāh Shujāʿ – governor of Bengal and second son of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān – it casts light on the historical development of the Tājika school by extensive quotations from earlier works spanning five centuries. With this first-ever scholarly edition and translation of a Tājika text, Martin Gansten makes a significant contribution not only to the study of an important but little known knowledge tradition, but also to the intellectual historiography of Asia and the transmission of horoscopic astrology in the medieval and early modern periods.