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Translated from the Latin by
James
Herschel Holden, M.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Translators Preface ix
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Preface
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Section I.
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Ch.
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Pg.
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1
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The Difference between a Ray and an
Aspect; and the Various Opinions on that as to their Effect on Sublunar
things
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3
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2
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In which the Doctrine of Jofrancus
Offtzsius, the German, On the rays of the sirs is set forth; and what it is
Asserted Should be Judged about it
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3
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3
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What is an Aspect among Astrologers;
and What does its Formal Reason Consist of in General
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10
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4
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How many Astrological Aspects there
are; and what are the Quantities of
each one; then. which ones are Simple and which ones are Mixed
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14
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5
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Whether the Aspects of the Planets
should be Established for the Mean Places of those Planets; or for the
True Places as seen by the eye, or for the True Places at the Center of the
Earth
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22
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6
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In which Great
Circle the real Aspects of the Planets should first be Conceived According
to Ptolemy and Cardan, and a Refutation of their [Opinions]
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23
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7
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Giovanni
Bianchini's and Cyprian Leowitz's Opinions on that same Matter and a
Refutation of [their Opinions]
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27
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8
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John
Regiomontanus's Opinion on this Matter, and a Refutation of it
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31
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9
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In what Great
Circle the Aspects of the Planets must be conceived to be according to the
Truth off the Matter
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35
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Translator's
Comment
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55
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10
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The Benefic and
Malefic Nature of the Aspects and what the Cause of both of them is. And
then, which Aspects are Benefit and Which ate Malefic
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57
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11
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Whether the
Astrological Aspects differ in kind among themselves
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12
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The Cause of the
Astrological Aspects
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71
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The Orb of Virtue
of the Stars, and the Semidiameter of that Orb for the Planets and the
Fixed [Stars]. A new and true Doctrine for the Recognition of the Aspects
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14
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The Partile and Platic
Aspects of the Planets; then the Dexter and Sinister Aspects
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78
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The Antiscions of
the Planets
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81
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How the Usual way
of Speaking about Aspects and
Antiscions must be Successively Reshaped or at least Understood
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86
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Whether one
Planet Aspecting another, or Located in its Antiscion. Transmits to it its
own Nature and Virtue and that of the sign that it Occupies
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18
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What Objections
have been made by Pico Mirandola. Alexander de Angelis and the rest against
the Aspects of the Planets. And first those by Pico
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Those Objections
made by Alexander de Angelis
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Those
Objections that are made by Plotinus and Marsilio Ficino
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The Mutual
Aspects of the Planets and the fixed Stars
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Section II. The Applications and
Separations of the Planets. And
also the Translation and Abscission of their
virtue, etc.
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1
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What an
Application and a Separation are, and to which Planets they are properly
Appropriate
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105
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2
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The Modes and the
Effects of the Simple Applications and Separations of the Planets among
themselves
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110
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3
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The Modes and
Effects of the Combined Applications and Separations of the Planets among
themselves
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115
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4
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The Doryphory of
the Planets or their Attendance
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Section III. Planets Combust by the Sun
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Why a Planet is
Combust by the Sun
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125
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2
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Every Planet is
always Somewhere: in the Heart of the Sun, Combust, or Under the Sun Beams'
or rather, the Aspects of the Planets with Respect to the Earth are often
burnt up
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126
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3
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Whether Combust
planet are of no Virtue [for acting] on these Inferior things, as the
Ancients thought
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127
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4
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[There is no
Chapter 4]
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5
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Reasons against
the Opinions of the Ancients
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130
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Experiences
against the Opinions of tile Ancients
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136
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In which Lucio
Bellantio's Reasons for the Opinion of the Ancients are discarded
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139
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Index of Persons
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143
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Bibliography
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