History of Astrology from the Chaldeans to the Dawn of Science
Edited by D. Corradetti
August 22, 2013
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Astronomy and Astrology
Part I: Sacred Astrology in Antiquity
3 AN OVERVIEW: The Egyptian Sun and the Stars of Mesopotamia
4 The Stars in Egypt
4.1 Predynastic Observations
4.2 Solar Cult and Ascension to Heaven
4.3 Egyptian Cosmology
5 The Chaldeans and Star Worship
5.1 Chaldean Astrologers
5.2 The 4 Pillars of Heaven
5.3 Archaic Constellations and the Birth of the Zodiac
5.4 The Birth of Astrology
6 Hebrew Astrology
7 Greek Astrology
Regulus or The Heart of the Lion
Aldebaran or The Eye of the Bull
Fomalhaut or The Mouth of the Fish
Antares or Heart of the Scorpion
The Lords of the Gates of Birth
The Lords of the Gates of Exit
8 IN-DEPTH: Mundane Astrology
8.1 Dendera and The Chart of the Birth of the World
8.2 Ptolemy's Mundane Astrology
8.3 The Great Conjunctions
Part II: The Middle Ages and Free Will
9 AN OVERVIEW: Astrology and Free Will
10 Astrology and Early Christianity
11 Medieval Shadows
12 The Arab Renaissance
12.1 The House of Wisdom
12.2 The Sabians of Harran
12.3 Mashallah, al-Kindi and Abu Ma'shar
13 The Conquest of Free Will
13.1 Albertus Magnus
13.2 The Poet Astrologers
14 IN-DEPTH: Arab Astrology
Part III: Renaissance and Philosophical Astrology
15 AN OVERVIEW: The Sage Dominates the Stars
16 Tradition and Astrological Gnosis
17 Hermeticism and Florentine Renaissance
17.1 The Corpus Hermeticum
17.2 Ficino, Savonarola and Pico della Mirandola
17.3 The Birth of Natural Magic
18 Trithemius and Secondary Causes
18.1 Steganography and Secondary Causes
18.2 Terrestrial Astronomy
19 The Correspondences of Paracelsus
19.1 The Daily Life of a...