Translated from the Latin by
James
Herschel Holden, M.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Translators
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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What an Astrological Direction is; and
what its Termini are; and how many kinds of it there are
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1
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2
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The Kinds of Future Events, both
Universal and in the Human Species, arising from Celestial Causes; and what
Future Events the Astrologer should Announce
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4
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3
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The Significators of Things that will
take place for a Man, and their General Definition and Number
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6
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4
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The Promittors of Future Things from
the Stars for a Man; their Definition and Number
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12
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5
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The Formal Difference between a
Significator and a Promittor, and their other Differences
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13
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6
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Which Significator Ought to be Directed
for Which Things
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15
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7
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How many Kinds of Directions there are;
whether Planets and the Cusps of Houses ought to be Directed against the
Succession of the Signs then, which of the Termini of a Direction is said
to be the Significator and which the Promittor, and why
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18
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8
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In which the Various Methods of
Artificial Directions Used by Astrologers are Set Forth,
and the False ones Rejected
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27
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9
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That the Way of Directing by Ascensions
given by Ptolemy is Natural and True, but Hitherto Understood by Few
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29
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Section II.
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1
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Whether it is Right to use the Latitude
as well as the Longitude of Significators and Promittors in Directions
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37
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2
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How the Aspects of the Planets may be
Corrected for Directions both with Longitude and with Latitude
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38
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3
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In which a Table of Correction of
Aspects of the Planets for Directions that we have Constructed is Set Forth and Explained
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39
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4
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Whether the Aspects of the Planets ought
to be Considered in the Equator as well as in the Ecliptic
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54
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5
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Whether Directions to the Antiscions of
the Planets and to the Nodes of the Moon are Efficacious
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57
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6
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Whether the
Directions of the Fixed Stars and the Part of Fortune are Efficacious
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57
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That Judgment
should not he Rendered on a Given Nativity without having Considered the
Directions
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59
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Section III.
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1
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Whether a
Direction and its Effect are made by any Physical Motion of one Terminus to
the Other
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61
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2
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How by means of
Termini that are Quiescent or Fixed in the Caelum their Effects may be Produced on Earth through their
Concourse in Directions
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64
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3
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The Various
Opinions of the Old and Modern Astrologers on Converting the Measure of
the Arc of Direction into Time
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71
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4
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In which the
Tables of Naibod and Magini are set forth for the Conversion of Time into
Arc of the Equator and vice versa
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74
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5
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Whether the Arcs
of Direction of all Significators or Promittors Should have the Same Common
Measure; and what the Logic of that Measure is
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78
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6
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Whether the
Effects of Directions are Brought Forth at the Precise Time when the Arc of
Direction Corresponds Precisely to their own Measure
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81
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Section IV.
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How Difficult it
is for a Man to Predict the Kind of Effect Signified by any Direction
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2
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How it may be
Known Whether a Given Direction is Going to Produce any Effect, and what
Kind it is Going to be
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3
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By what Means an
Astrologer can Arrive at an Understanding of the Type of Effect from the
Direction Producing it
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4
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From what
Sources the Certitude and Intensity of Effects may be Chosen through the
Directions of the Significators
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100
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5
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Some things
Universal as well as Particular that must be Noted in Connection with
Directions
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104
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6
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The Extraction of
Figures from the Figure of the Native for other Persons Related to Him
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109
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7
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Whether at the
Natives Death there is a Cessation of the Celestial Influx from his Natal
Figure upon his Parents, Brothers, Spouse, Children, and other Persons
Belonging to him and Surviving him
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126
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Section V.
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Pico Mirandolas
Objections to Astrologlcal Directions and the Refutation of those
Objections
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128
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2
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In which Alessandro
de Angeliss Reasons against Directions are Proposed and Refuted
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134
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In which Sinus ab
Hemmingas Reasons against Astrology, and especially against Directions are
Refuted
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137
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4
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In which the
Truth of the Doctrine of Directions is Demonstrated in the Chan of Sixtus
ab Hemminga
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144
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In which We
Propose and Resolve Objections of no small Import
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150
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Appendix 1
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Jerome Cardan XE "Jerome Cardan" on the Latitude of Aspects.
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How Aspects and Conjunctions ought to be Taken
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Appendix 2
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J. B. Morin on the Mundane Position of Aspects.
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In what Great
Circle the Real Aspects of the Planets should be Conceived according to the
Truth of the Matter
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158
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Appendix 3
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The Solar Eclipse
of 8 April 1652
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173
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Appendix 4
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Some Horoscopes
Mentioned in the Text
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176
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Appendix 5
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Regiomontanus
Primary Direction Formulae
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186
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ADDENDA
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Book 2
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3
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How Many Years
Passed between the Creation of the World and the Incarnation of Christ and
from then to this Year 1648 according to the Method of Numeration used by
the Church
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190
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BOOK THIRTEEN
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TABLE OF THE
UNIVERSAL RULERSHIPS OF THE PLANETS
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BOOK FIFTEEN
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6
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The Triplicites
of the Planets, or the Trigons and the Trigon Rulers According to the
Opinions of the Old [Astrologers]
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Trigons and
Trigonocrators According to Our Opinion
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To Which Regions
of the World the Trigons Pertain; and Consequently Which Regions of the
World the Trigonocrators Principally Rule
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Some Things about
these Trigons that should be Especially Noted
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215
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10
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The Faces or
Persons or Almugea of the Planets
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217
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The Thrones,
Seats, or Chariots of the Planets
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218
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12
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The Joys of the
Planets
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13
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The Terms,
Novenas, Decans, Duodecatemories, etc. of the Planets in the Several Signs
of the Zodiac. Then, the Light,
Smoky, Pitted, and Empty Degrees of the Signs, their Monomoiriai, etc
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BOOK SEVENTEEN
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SECTION 1
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3
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The Special Division
of the whole Caelum into Twelve
Astrological Houses with respect to the Person being Born
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Things to be
Particularly Noted about the Significations of the Houses
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224
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The Extrinsic
Strength of the Planets arising from their Reception in the Signs of the
Zodiac
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226
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BOOK TWENTY
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SECTION 3
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The Various Universal Modes by which
the Celestial Bodies act on Sub-lunar Things
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The Action of the
Constellations and of the Fixed [Stars] on these Inferior Things; and the
Dependence in Action of some of these on the Twelfths and the Planets
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BOOK TWENTY-THREE
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The Universal
Laws of Judgments on Solar and Lunar Revolutions of Nativities
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237
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Compendiously
Embracing General Things that must be Looked at in Revolutions, with a
Directory of Judgment
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A Caution of no
Small Importance that Must be Observed in Judging Revolutions
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BOOK TWENTY-FOUR
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Whether the
Planets act upon the Native through their Syzygies outside of the Places of
the Geniture through which their Transits are Customarily Made; and How and
When
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Aphorisms or the
Principal Laws of Transits
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How, from What
has been Explained so far, Future Events can be Predicted from the Stars
with Regard to the Type, the Year, Day, and Hour
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Figure 1. Aspect
Latitude
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Figure 2. The
Horoscope of Marie Louise of
Gonzaga, Queen of Poland
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Figure 3. The
Nativity of Louis XIV, Most Christian King of France and Navane
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Figure 4. The
Combinations of Tenrnni
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86
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Figure 5. The
Horoscope of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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132
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Figure 6. The
Horoscope of Sixtus ab Hemminga
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146
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LIST OF TABLES
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TABLE I.
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TABLE II.
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83
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TABLE III.
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TABLE IV.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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My friend, Robert
C. Donat, Ph.D., Editor of Research Publications of the A.F.A., very kindly
offered to convert my word processor files for this book into a printed
format. The typesetting of this book
is the result of his labors. I am
sure the reader will join me in thanking him for the considerable effort he
expended in making the text easier to read.
J.H.H.
11 September 1991
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Index of Persons
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Bibliography
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