Essential dignity

Domicile, exaltation, triplicity, bound and face: the five-fold scheme by which the tradition rates a planet's condition in a degree, and the textual disputes inside it.

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  • Essential DignityConceptBabylonianHellenisticMedieval LatinRenaissance and early modern

    Domicile, exaltation, triplicity, bound and face: the fivefold scheme, its sources, and the three places where the surviving texts do not agree.

  • The TetrabiblosPrimary textHellenisticIslamicateMedieval LatinRenaissance and early modern

    Ptolemy's four books on astrology: what the work is for, how it reached the present through three languages, and why its chapter numbers must be named.

  • William LillyPersonRenaissance and early modernModern

    The most consequential transmitter in modern astrological software, whose tables most programs ship under somebody else's name.