The Astrology Center of America, 207 Victory Lane, Bel Air, MD 21014
Tel: 410-638-7761; Fax:410-638-5154; Toll-free (orders only): 800-475-2272
Home Author Index Title Index Subject Index Vedic Books Tarot E-Mail: Dave



Medieval Astrology

including Medieval Medical Astrology


Projects Hindsight/ARHAT weren't the first to go back to the past for inspiration. There is a steady, albeit small, trickle of classic books available, as well as some excellent modern books.

Medieval medical astrology books (the ones by Saunders & Culpeper, shown below), differ not only from modern medical astrology books, but also from modern medical texts as well. In a single volume, a guide to diagnose disease astrologically, a guide to the various types of humans (choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic), typical symptoms of many diseases - and how to spot them, astrological guidelines for when & how to administer treatment (using planetary hours), as well as suggested herbal-based remedies. No modern medical book of any kind can claim that degree of comprehensiveness.

William Lilly has his own page, as does Morin.

For earlier books, see Ancient Astrology & ARHAT.
For late 19th/early 20th century, see: Sepharial

Indicates a book on our Top Ten list. If you would like to find more books like it, click on the star.

THE TEXT-BOOK OF ASTROLOGY - A.J. Pearce, $44.95
Contents: Preface to the second edition; Preface to the 2006 reprint, by James Herschel Holden

Book 1. Genethliacal Astrology:
1. Introduction; 2. Introduction, continued; 3. Genethliacal astrology; 4. The alphabet; 5. On the right ascension, declination, etc., of the heavenly bodies; 6. On dividing the heavens; 7. On casting a figure of the heavens; 8. Calculation of nativities; 9. The signs & constellations of the zodiac; 10. The Sun;

11. The Moon; 12. The planet Mercury; 13. The planet Venus; 14. The planet Mars; 15. The planet Jupiter; 16. The planet Saturn; 17. The planet Uranus; 18. The planet Neptune; 19. The fixed stars; 20. The import of the nativity;

21. Physical constitution & temperament; 22. The mind & disposition; 23. The fortune of wealth & rank; 24. On the vocation; 25. Marriage; 26. Children; 27. Friends & enemies; 28. Travelling; 29. The kind of death; 30. On primary directions;

31. Examples of rules for working mundane directions; 32. Zodiacal directions; 33. Examples of rules for computing zodiacal directions; 34. On equating arcs of direction; 35. On rectifying a nativity; 36. On solar revolutions; 37. On secondary directions; 38. On lunations, eclipses & progresses; 39. On transits; 40. On the effects of primary directions; 41. On the practical uses of astrology.

Appendix to book 1: To reduce mean to sidereal time; On the use of logarithms in astronomical calculations (with 12 formulas); To find the latitude & longitude of a star by the celestial globe; To find the arc of duration of a primary direction of the sun or moon.

Book 2. Mundane Astrology:
1. Introduction; 2. On the equinoxes & solstices; 3. On the new moon of the year; 4. Necessary considerations before judgement; 5. On the presignification of the planet Saturn when lord of the year; 6. On the presignification of Jupiter; 7. On the presignification of Mars; 8. On the presignification of the Sun; 9. On the presignification of Venus; 10. On the presignification of Mercury; 11. On the presignification of the Moon; 12. On the presignification of planets when in mutual configuration, one being elevated above the other, at a solar ingress or an eclipse; 13. On eclipses of the sun & moon; 14. On the presignification of the planets, according to their positions at eclipses of the sun & moon; 15. Examples of predictions made from recent eclipses of the sun & moon, solar ingresses & transits of the planets; 16. Mutual conjunctions of the major planets; 17. Comets.

Book 3. Astro-Meteorology:
1. Introduction; 2. The Sun; 3. The Moon; 4. The planet Jupiter; 5. The planet Saturn; 6. The planet Mars; 7. The planet Venus; 8. The planet Mercury; 9. The planet Uranus; 10. The planet Neptune; 11. The mutual conjunctions & oppositions of the planets; 12. Earthquakes & volcanic eruptions.

Book 4. Medical Astrology:
1. Epidemics & planetary influence; 2. Crisis in disease; 3. Diagnosis & prognosis of disease; 4. Therapeutics & astrology; 5. Medicines & planetary influence; 6. On the preservation of health.

Book 5. Elections:
1. Introduction; 2. Elections for affairs pertaining to the first six houses; 3. Elections relating to the last six houses; 4. The planetary dignities.

Appendix 2: Tables of houses for London & Northampton; Table of right ascension; Table of declination (north & south); Ascensional difference for the latitude of London; Ascensional difference for the latitude of Washington, D.C.

Comment: London-born Alfred John Pearce lived from 1840 to 1923. The first part of his Text-Book, on genethliacal astrology, was published in 1879. The remaining four books, as Part 2, were published ten years later, in 1889. They were revised & combined in a single volume in 1911, which the AFA reprinted in facsimile in 1970. It has long been a classic. I am pleased the AFA has reset and reprinted it, in a sturdy hardcover.

The tenor of the book: As a cookbook, it's a bit weak. Pearce delineates planets in signs, that's about it. The heart of the book, what makes it so wonderful (I was going to reprint this if the AFA had not) are the wealth of aphorisms & examples drawn from the author's own observations, coupled with his wide reading of astrological classics. Among them, Ptolemy, Manilius, the 17th century English classics (Partridge, Gadbury & Ramesey among them). The first book, on natal astrology, is excellent, as is the second, on mundane astrology. Books 3 & 4 (on astro-meteorology & astrology & medicine) are shorter and not as comprehensive, although much relating to medicine is given in the first book, and much relating to the weather is given in the second. The final book, on elections, is a condensed version of Ramesey's elections in Astrologie Restored, which someone must reprint eventually.

Regrettably, the book lacks both table of contents & index. Enterprising readers can fashion a table of contents from my list (above) merely by adding page numbers. An index would be priceless.

AFA, 504 pages, hardcover.


A RECTIFICATION MANUAL: The American Presidency - Regulus Astrology LLC, aka "Dr. H.", $59.95

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Prerequisites
Key

Part 1: Delineation
1. Planets in signs
2. Modern planets
3. Planets in houses
4. Arcus Vitae ("Arc of Life")

Part 2: Prediction
5. The problem of under specification
6. Temporal indicators
7. Planetary period methods
8. Directions & progressions
9. Solar returns: Profections & time lords
10. Solar returns: Delineation & prediction
11. Solar returns: Arabic Parts
12. Lunar nodes & eclipses
13. Transits

Part 3: Rectification
14. Preparing the event database
15. Three stages of rectification
16. Rectification case studies

Afterword

Appendices:
A. Tests of Egyptian versus Ptolemaic Bounds
B. Tests of Sect influence: Part of Fortune / Fidaria
C. The Presidential database
D. The First Ladies database

References

Comment: This is several books in one volume. It is, first, a database of rectified charts of US Presidents & their wives, which comprises the back half of the book. Second, it is a study in medieval rectification techniques, and, third & most importantly, it is a masterful tour de force of medieval astrological techniques generally. In this, the mysterious "Dr. H" has produced by far the most demanding of all the many recent modern revival books.

And I'm not joking. On pg. xv are the Prerequites:

Before studying this manual, readers should be familiar with:
  • Essential nature of planets
  • Essential nature of the twelve zodiacal signs
  • How the essential dignities of sign & exaltation govern planetary behavior
  • Definition of minor dignities: triplicity, bound, decan, 9ths, 12ths (duads)
  • Assignment of life affairs to the twelve houses
  • Computation of derived houses
  • Definition of derivative angles, eg, Vertex & Equatorial Ascendant
  • Formulas for & computation of Arabic Parts
  • Calculation of a natal & solar return chart
  • Primary & secondary motion
  • Calculation of progressions
  • Direct & converse motion
  • Solar arc directions
  • Aspects, antiscia & contra-antiscia
  • Reception, translation of light, and other methods which perfect or deny a planetary configuration
To be fair, the many case studies presented throughout the book give practical instruction for many of these topics. In the extensive References (aka Bibliography) in the back, Dr. H gives all his sources, both astrological and biographical. Among the principal references, cited again & again in the text, are Al Biruni, Dorotheus, Firmicus, and perhaps above all, Guido Bonati. Which only makes me wish Prof. Dykes, the translator, will soon publish an inexpensive paperback edition of his massive work.

Unmentioned in Dr. H's list above, but of critical importance, are Primary Directions. Dr. H has discoverred the Primary Direction Sequence, which he describes as the Holy Grail of rectification. He writes:

Locking Down a Rectification with Primary Direction Sequences

Low odds against a random finding. The value in primary direction sequences for rectification is based on the extremely low odds of finding pairs of events, sometimes months or years apart, which match start and end dates for a primary direction sequence. It's fairly easy to find close matches of individual directions to a smattering of events. But matching several pairs of events to sequences of Ascendant and Midheaven directions is a mathematical feat which is virtually impossible to achieve unless the rectified birth time is accurate to the second. And not just a second of time. For some Presidents with a large event database, it was possible to narrow the birth time to one second of degree. Such is the case for FDR, whose proposed Ascendant of 20 Virgo 57' 52" implies an accuracy of a fraction of one second of a minute of time. Such precision is unheard of in astrological circles. I propose this type of accuracy is possible with sequences. (pg. 133)

Again & again in this book, Dr. H takes medieval techniques, such as primaries & the prenatal epoch (SAN: Syzygy Ante Navitatem), and, page after page demonstrates the most amazing grasp, produces the most brilliant results, from these many techniques. Nowhere in this book will you find warmed-over hash. In the process, he pushes existing computer programs to their limits. (Janus 3.0, if you're interested: pg. 133.)

See two examples of his work: The rectification of William Howard Taft (from the book), and, that for Mike Huckabee, as seen on Dr. H's website.

Yes, you will learn rectification with this book. But you will learn so much more. After you finish this book, you will never look at charts the same way again.

Regulus Astrology LLC, 771 pages.


FIVE MEDIEVAL ASTROLOGERS - translated by James Herschel Holden, $21.95

Contents:

Translator's preface

Albumasar (c.787 - 886): The Book of Flowers

Pseudo-Ptolemy (author unknown, date prior to 800 AD): The Centiloquy

Hermes Trismegistus (author unknown, date prior to 1262): The Centiloquy

Bethen (probably written by Ibn Ezra, 1148): The Centiloquy

Almansor (12th century, Toledo, Spain?) The Propositions

Bibliography

Comment: These are five sets of aphorisms, of Greek or Arabic origins, that were translated from (largely lost) originals by the celebrated Twelfth Century Translators, of Spain & Italy. Increasing trade between Christian Europe & the Islamic world, in particular, Spain, had given Christians a taste for the many splendors in Arabic libraries. The twelfth century produced many hundreds of translations to satisfy this need. The Wiki page notably omits Every.Single.Astrological.Work translated by these men. When in fact many, if not a majority of the books translated were astrological in nature. We are, today, many years from exhausting those treasures. It was these translations that set the stage for the Italian Renaissance some three centuries later.

Medieval scholars gave far greater importance to the nature of numbers than we do today. Hence there are many sets of 100 aphorisms, from whence the title, "Centiloquy". One of the earliest surviving, and one of the best, is the one attributed to Ptolemy, though he did not write it. The next most famous is the set by "Hermes", though, again, actual authorship is unknown. All three sets given here, along with Almansor's 150 Propositions, mix some natal astrology with a lot of horary & electional. Albumasar's Book of Flowers is, uniquely, a book of mundane aphorisms. I have long awaited such a book.

These translations were made from critical editions of source material. In particular, the translation of the "Ptolemy" Centiloquy is from the recent Greek text of Emilie Boer.

AFA, 153 pages.


TEMPERAMENT: ASTROLOGY'S FORGOTTEN KEY - Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, $35.00
Contents: Acknowledgements; Permissions; Preface; Introduction; 1. Theory & history of temperament; 2. Temperament theory applied: the Waldorf study; 3. Using temperament in modern astrological practice. Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Appendices: A. Determining temperament through the ages; B. Robert Burton & The Anatomy of Melancholy; C. Ramon Lull's descriptions of temperament; D. Nicholas Culpeper's descriptions of temperament; E. Poems on temperament; F. Culpeper's compound temperaments; G. Roy Wilkinson's temperament charts; H. Birthcharts of children used in the Waldorf study; I. Names, temperaments & temperament factors.

Figures: 1. Seasons correlated with qualities & elements; 2. Schoener's qualities, elements, seasons, planets, humors; 3. One example of how Aristotle's theory of the elements work; 4. Ramon Lull's system of elements & qualities; 5. Jungian functions; 6. Functions correlated with qualities; 7. Steiner's circle of temperaments; 8. Child's temperament diagram; 9. Anschutz's Greek humors diagram; 10. Qualities of the planets (a possible scheme); 11. Ptolemy's moon phases; 12. Lilly's moon phases; 13. Lilly's worked temperament example.

Tables: 1. Ptolemy's assignment of qualities (Tetrabiblos, book 1); 2. The nature of the signs according to Abu Mashar; 3. The nature of the planets according to Abu Mashar; 4. The Qualities of the signs according to Al Biruni; 5. The nature of the planets according to Al Biruni; 6. Qualities of the planets, by phase (Garcaeus); 7. Qualities of the moon, by phase (Garcaeus); 8. Qualities of the sun, by phase (Garcaeus); 9. Marc Edmund Jones's temperament system; 10. Steiner's correlation of body & temperament; 11. Child's mottoes, theme tunes & temperaments; 12. Temperament matches by individual factors (counting compound temperaments equally); 13. Temperament matches by ASC sign, moon sign, ASC ruler, ASC almuten, moon ruler, season; 14. Temperament matches by ASC sign, moon sign & season; 15. Qualities of the sun by season & sign; 16. Analysis of temperament in the natal chart.

How to recognize the temperaments (appendix G); Reactions of children to various situations according to temperament (appendix G); The golden rule for treating children according to temperament (appendix G).

Comment: Knowledge of the four temperament types, Choleric (hot & dry), Sanguine (hot & wet), Melancholic (cold & dry) and, Phlegmatic (cold & wet), and their combinations, are essential to the study of traditional astrology. The basic concepts date back to the Greeks, more than two thousand years ago. Over the centuries, many different formulas were devised for determining temperament from a birth chart, right down to the current era. Greenbaum takes the best of these and tests them against common-sense observations of children, arriving at a synthesis of techniques, with universal application. What's your temperament type? You might be surprised. According to the book, George Bush is choleric, Tony Blair is sanguine, Paul Simon is melancholy, George Harrison is phlegmatic. Temperament is also critical for astrology & medicine. This book fills a huge gap & will repay study many times over.

Wessex Astrologer, 217 pages.


ASTROLOGICAL JUDGEMENT & PRACTICE OF PHYSICK, Deducted from the position of the heavens at the decumbiture of the sick person - Richard Saunders, $29.95

Comment: Richard Saunders (1613 - 1692) was an astrologer/physician in 17th century England. This book, first published in 1677, was the result of thirty years practice. It is also one of the earliest astro-medical treatises in the English language. Using the terminology of his day, Saunders speaks of humors and winds, of conditions hot, cold or dry, of the cholerick and melancholy, etc. This is a comprehensive and demanding text on medical astrology. Included are rules for decumbiture charts, illnesses produced by the traditional planets in the various signs of the zodiac, when to administer medicines based on planetary hours, and much more.

Click for a PDF excerpt.

Coment continued, table of contents.

Astrology Classics, 397 pages.


ASTROLOGICAL JUDGEMENT OF DISEASES FROM THE DECUMBITURE OF THE SICK - Nicholas Culpeper, $17.95
Contents:

Liber 1: Judgment of diseases much enlarged, Abraham Avenezra of critical days;

Liber 2: Astrological judgment upon diseases, or a methodical way to find out the cause, nature, symptoms & change of a disease, etc.

Chapter 1: Definition of the word crisis; Chapter 2: Way to find out critical days, also decumbiture by ancient & modern writers; Chapter 3: Sympathy & antipathy of signs & planets; Chapter 4: Critical & judicial days by a figure of 8 houses; Chapter 5: Former rules illustrated by an example; Chapter 6: How to set a figure of 16 houses & judgment on it, how to set a figure of 12 houses for the crisis; Chapter 8: To find the exact time of crisis by a table of logistical logarithms; Chapter 9: Certain precepts premised before the Prognosticks; Chapter 10: General Prognostications of the disease;

Chapter 11: The diseases the planets signify, diseases the signs of the zodiac signify, parts of the body the planets rule, parts of the body ruled by signs; Chapter 11 (sic): How to read a decumbiture chart; Chapter 12: How to know if the disease be in the mind or body; Chapter 13: How to know which part of the body may be afflicted; Chapter 14: How to know if the disease will be long or short, or whether it will end in life or death, signs of long or short sickness, signs of life at decumbiture, signs of death; Chapter 15: For the cure of any disease take these few rules; Hermes Trismegistus upon the first decumbiture; Results of Moon in each sign afflicted by Mars & Saturn; Chapter 16: Observations of Cardan, Augerius Pererius, Boderius, John Antonia Maginus, John Baptista Triandula.

There follows the Four Books of the Presages of Hippocrates, finally, Culpeper's own Urinalia, an extensive study of problems in the urine, bladder & kidneys.

Comment: Another excellent medieval astrological medical text. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) is best-known today for his English Physician, a comprehensive guide to the medicinal uses of native plants & herbs, the first such book published in English. Culpeper, a Puritan, was the son of a clergyman. In 1634 he spent a year at Cambridge, where he learned Greek & Latin, which enabled him to study old medical texts. He was apprenticed to an apothecary & started his formal practice in Spitalfields, London, around 1640. Culpeper supported the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War, suffering a severe chest wound in 1643. After recovering he returned to his medical practice in London, where he established a reputation as an outstanding healer. War wounds combined with overwork led to his death from exhaustion in 1654, aged 37. According to his widow, he left behind some 70 unfinished manuscripts.

In his short life, Culpeper was a very busy, very successful astrologer/doctor. This book is his own opinionated guide to astrological medical diagnosis: What astrological factors to look for, what they mean, from someone who KNEW. Appendix: His Urinalia, a short but complete guide to the urine. The text, while newly reset, retains the spelling & punctuation of the original. Two of the great classics. Click here for a PDF extract.

Astrology Classics, 182 pages.


ARABIAN PARTS DECODED - Lind Weber, $21.95
Contents:
Preface; Creation of a mystery; Doldrums & discovery; Fortunes & Lots, parts & points; The Arabian midpoints; Uranian conversion; Why the ascendant is the key to the system; The predictive system; The framework: the predictive system of the parts; Of astrology & spirituality;

Fortuna & spirit; Cutting to the chase; On midpoints; The proliferations; Do we change at night?; The trines of Jupiter & the squares of Saturn; Arabian Parts: The part of Death; The parts of Jupiter; What does a part mean?; Examples we're all asking about;

Arabian parts & midpoints; Of Apheta & Anareta; Orbs & the Arabian parts; Progressing & enhancing the parts; Do the parts always work?; The misfortunes of Fortuna; Introduction to practical forecasting; A historical sketch that makes sense; The mystery was natural understanding; Lecturing at AFA 1996;

A visit with Manilius; At the balance chart bazaar; Fortuna in the natal chart; Examples: Natal conjunctions of Fortuna & Spirit; Fortuna in the event chart; Closing comments; The astrology of missing persons; Fortuna & the Scorpio Independence chart; Bagdad the survivor; Glossary; Chart sources; Bibliography.

Comment: I've been asked for years for a good book on the Arabic Parts & this is it. Not so much "decoded" as DECIPHERED. Lind compares parts to midpoints, which in fact they are. Arabic Parts are midpoints that incorporate house cusps. More surprisingly, the Parts relate to transit timing: Transits activate a part, based on the house, sign & rulership in question (pg. 43). Lind also reveals how this nifty system was deliberately distorted in the middle ages to keep it secret. Includes Reciprocals, Proliferation, day/night charts, lots more.

AFA, 212 pages, paper.


THE NATIVITY OF KING CHARLS - John Gadbury, $5.50
From 'The Epiftle Dedicatory':"The Subject of this little Book may feem ftrange to fuch Perfons, that know nothing above the earth they tread on. Yet to you (worthy Sir!) being acquainted with the Radix thereof, it cannot but appear otherwife." 128 pages. Clara M. Darr, publisher, small paper.


ARABIC PARTS IN ASTROLOGY, A Lost Key to Prediction - Robert Zoller, $16.95
Contents: How the Parts were lost; The metaphysical basis of the Parts; How to use the Parts; Bonatti's treatise on the Parts (Zoller's translation); The extraction of the Parts for purposes not listed; Natal figures; Comparing natal figures; Commodities variations; Spiritual counseling. Appendices: On the lots of Manilius; On Firmicus' Duodecatemoria; On profection; On Bonatti's use of the Parts of the father; Parts used by al-Biruni in horary questions. 245 pages including metaphysical bibliography, index of parts, general index. Inner Traditions, 245 pages.


SOMNIUM: The dream, or posthumous work on lunar astronomy - Johannes Kepler, translated by Edward Rosen, $18.95
Contents: Preface; Abbreviation of works cited frequently; List of illustrations; Introduction.

The Dream: Kepler's notes on the Dream; Kepler's geographic appendix to the Dream; Kepler's notes on the geographical appendix.

Appendices: A. Jacob Bartsch; B. Ludwig Kepler; C. Kepler's lunar dissertation of 1593; D. Kepler's translation of Plutarch's Moon; E. Kepler & Donne; F. Kepler's legendary account of Aristotle's death; G. Oddur Einarsson, bishop in Iceland; H. Kepler's concept of gravity; I. Kepler's concept of inertia; J. The cold of Quivira; K. David Fabricius; L. Paul Guldin; M. The people of Lucumoria.

Bibliography; Index.

Comment: This is Kepler's story of his voyage to the moon (which inspired Jules Verne, by the way), which occurred in the Year of Our Lord 1593. This was supposedly written in response to a question posed by one of his teachers at Tubingen University: What would things look like from some other place in the solar system, such as the moon? (I paraphrase.) Kepler's thesis, employing the new Copernican system, was not acceptable to his anti-Copernican professor, Veit Muller, so Kepler set it aside for many years.

Keplers's description of the earth, sun & solar system as seen from the moon is remarkable enough. At any given place on the near side of the moon, the earth sits, bolted to the same spot of the sky, never moving, not up, not down, not left nor right. The sun rises, and, two weeks later, sets, then, two weeks later, rises again. For three months it passes above the earth, for three months below the earth, in between the two, behind the earth (aka, an eclipse). The universe is stranger still to those who live on the far side.

Kepler adds a "fanciful" framework: The voyage itself, the various inhabitants & their lives there. According to Kepler, merely getting to the moon is tricky. It can only be done at certain times of the year, and one must return within a certain period.

As we all know, a physical voyage a la lune was briefly possible a few decades ago & a handful of men actually made the trip. By comparison, an astral trip to the moon, undertaken by a conscious astral entity, traveling through astral matter, is possible by anyone with the necessary desire, talent & training. In this regard, details of Kepler's account seem to match some of those given by the English/Australian occultist, C.W. Leadbeater (1847-1934), who wrote,

[T]he portion of the [earth's] astral plane which is exterior to the physical, extends nearly to the mean distance of the moon's orbit, so that the astral planes of the two worlds touch one another when the moon is at perigee, but do not touch when the moon is in apogee. Incidentally, it follows that at certain times of the month astral communication with the moon is possible, and at certain other times it is not.

I knew of a case in which a dead man['s astral body] reached the moon, but could not then return. That was because the continuity of astral matter failed him - the tide of space had flowed in between, as it were, and he had to wait until communication was re-established by the approach of the satellite to its primary. (pg. 154 from The Inner Life, by C.W. Leadbeater, TPS, 1992, first published 1911)

So I suspect the parallels between Leadbeater & Kepler to be significant. Among them, Kepler said the trip from earth to moon took four hours. One of Leadbeater's achievements was to clock the speed of astral travel with respect to the physical world. If memory serves, Leadbeater put the figure in his book, The Astral Plane, which I can no longer find in my library. Kepler's travel time works out to roughly 55,400 miles an hour, which is 923 miles per minute. At that speed, an astral trip from New York to Paris can be done in around 4 minutes. This seems to be broadly in agreement with my memory of Leadbeater. Should anyone reading this be confused, I am here exploring Kepler's dream in light of metaphysics. I realize this will not be to everyone's taste. I caution that should a living person make an astral journey to the moon & still be there when the moon's astral body separated from that of the earth's, that if such a person was not automatically "snapped back" to the earth, the body he left behind on the earth would physically die as a result.

The dream itself is a small portion of the book, pgs. 11-29. Kepler then follows with his own detailed notes, pgs. 30 to 174, which he completed some decades later. In them, Kepler seems quite convinced of the reality of the life he had found on the moon. The rest of the book are appendices provided by the translator, who also supplies copious notes on Kepler's notes.

I offer this book to astrologers, as well as to students & friends of Kepler College, that they may study a priceless, long overlooked fragment of Kepler's genius. This is a reprint of the 1967 edition published by the University of Wisconsin.

Dover, 255 pages.



The Astrology Center of America

207 Victory Lane, Bel Air, MD 21014
Tel: 410-638-7761; Fax:410-638-5154; Toll-free (orders only): 800-475-2272

Home Author Index Title Index Subject Index Vedic Books Tarot E-Mail: Dave


Established 1993, The Astrology Center of America is owned & operated by David Roell.
This entire site (AstroAmerica.com) is copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 by William R. Roell.
All rights reserved.