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The early Christians, like the early Jews, were vehemently opposed to astrology, even attributing it to demonic origin. The Church Fathers were willing to impose strong sanctions against astrology to protect their flocks. In AD 120, the noted mathematician Aquila Ponticus was excommunicated from the Church at Rome for astrological heresies. [1]
Christian Astrology, written in 1647 by the English astrologer William Lilly, is considered a seminal work of Western astrology. William Lilly successively treats the rules of western astrology, horary astrology and 'nativities', about erecting and analysing a birth chart in natal astrology. He wrote the book when he was ill and had to stay at ...
Dorotheus of Sidon (Ancient Greek: Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, c. 75 CE - ??CE) was a 1st-century Greek astrologer and astrological poet, [1] who, during the Hellenistic Period, wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology in Greek, known as the Pentateuch (Πεντάτευχος; lit. five books; more commonly known in the Western world as Carmen Astrologicum [2]).
In astrology, a decan is the subdivision of a sign. In order to give fuller interpretation to the zodiac signs , ancient astrologers subdivided each sign into periods of approximately ten days. These divisions are known as the "decans" or "decanates" and cover modifications of individual traits, attributed to minor planetary influences, which ...
The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 978-0-517-57790-5. Tester, Jim, 1987. A history of western astrology. New Hampshire: Boydell and Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85115-446-6. Taliaferro, Robert Catesby, and Wallis, Charles Glenn, 1955. Ptolemy's Almagest. Great books of ...
The Centiloquium (= "one hundred sayings"), also called Ptolemy's Centiloquium, is a collection of one hundred aphorisms about astrology and astrological rules. It is first recorded at the start of the tenth century CE, when a commentary was written on it by the Egyptian mathematician Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Misri (later sometimes confounded with his namesake Ali ibn Ridwan ibn Ali ibn Ja'far al ...