Jean-Baptiste Morin


 

Astrologia Gallica

Book Fourteen

The Primum Caelum and its

Division into Twelve Parts

 

 

 

Translated from the Latin by

James Herschel Holden, M.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Translator’s Preface                                                                                    5

Preface to Book XIV of Astrologia Gallica                                               11

Section 1. The Prime Physical Cause and the Twelve Divisions

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Among the Effective Physical Causes, there is One that is First and Most Universal of All, and that is the Primum Caelum………………………………………

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2

The Primum Caelum Consists of Parts of Diverse Virtue…………………..

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3

The Primary and Actual Division by Nature……………………………….

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4

The Secondary and Virtual Division by Nature……………………………

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5

The Proper Elemental Natures of the Individual Signs are Investigated and Proved...

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6

The Twelve Divisions or the Signs of the  Zodiac Cannot be Established in any other Caelum than the Primum Caelum; and what is a Twelfth Part……………….

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7

What Kind of Error Concerning the Elemental Natures of the Signs was Introduced by Ptolemy and Cardan…………………………………………………..

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8

What Objections were Made by Pico Mirandola and Alexander de Angelis to the Division of the Zodiac into Twelve Signs……………………………………….

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9

How Outstanding are Those Things that Follow  from the Causes of the Division of the Caelum Assigned Above……………………………………………...

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Section II The General Divisions of the Signs for the role Earth.

 

 

1

The Fire, Air, Water, and Earth Signs…………………………………….

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2

The Choleric, Sanguinary, Phlegmatic, and Melancholy Signs……………..

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3

The Masculine and Feminine Signs……………………………………….

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4

The Diurnal and Nocturnal Signs………………………………………….

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5

The Northern and Southern Signs………………………………………...

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6

The Mobile, Fixed, and Common Signs…………………………………..

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7

The Commanding and Obeying Signs……………………………………..

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8

The Antiscion Signs………………………………………………………

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9

The Signs that Aspect Each Other and Those that do Not………………..

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10

The Conjunct and inconjunct Signs………………………………………

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11

Some Other Divisions of the Signs that Should Plainly be Rejected………

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12

The Constellations of the Firmament…………………………………….

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Index of Persons…………………………………………………………………………

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Bibliogaphy………………………………………………………………………………

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