Astrology as it is, not as it has been represented : a compendium / with a prefatory address and introduction ; also a view of the history of astrology ... by a cavalry officer.

  • Zadkiel, 1795-1874.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Astrology as it is, not as it has been represented : a compendium / with a prefatory address and introduction ; also a view of the history of astrology ... by a cavalry officer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE Prefatory Address • . . ix Introduction • • 1 View of the History of Astrology . . 11 CHAPTER I. Description of the Zodiac and its Signs. — Precession of the Equinoxes.—Influence of the Signs . . . .31 CHAPTER II. The Planets and their! Natures.—Description of the Sun, his In- fluence on Man.—Nature and Description of the Moon, Herschel, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury; their Influences on Man . . . . . . . .36 CHAPTER III. The Zodiacal and Mundane Aspects and their Qualities.—Number and Power of the Houses.—Table of Time and Degrees.—Table of Difference between Mean and Sidereal Time . .45 CHAPTER IV. Directions for erecting a Figure of the Heavens by the Table of Houses, Celestial Globe, or by Trigonometry.—Figure of the Heavens for John Molyneux.—Calculations of Planets’ Places.— Table for calculating the Moon’s Motion.—Figure of the Heavens at the Birth of H. R. H. Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert, calculated by Trigonometry.—Rules to calculate the Latitudes, Declinations, Right Ascensions, Meridian Distances, Ascensional Differences, and Semi-Arcs of the Planets . . .53