Did Ptolemy Use Whole Sign Houses?

Published on December 8, 2011 by in Techniques

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The question of Ptolemy’s preferred method of house division came up on the discussion forum on Skyscript recently.  I said that I had always thought that Robert Schmidt did an adequate job in his translation of the Tetrabiblos in pointing out the instances in which Ptolemy clearly employed whole sign houses. I suggested that anyone [...]

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Yesterday Laura Michetti submitted a rough translation of part of Rhetorius of Egypt’s chapter on the twelve places from the original Greek text.  Aside from a paper that James Holden published a few years ago in the American Federation of Astrologers Journal which contained a translation of Rhetorius’ treatment of four of the places, as [...]

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