Renaissance and early modern

18 entries

• Claudius PtolemyPerson

  The name attached to more of this site's material than any other, and the man underneath it, who names six of the twelve places and is silent about the rest.

• Eighth HouseHouse

  Named Beginning of Death in Hellenistic Greek and the sign of death by Dorotheus, an exact agreement across two independent lines of transmission.

• Eleventh HouseHouse

  The House of the Good Daemon in Ptolemy's own words, ranked third-best by Dorotheus, and Jupiter's joy since Firmicus and still in Lilly.

• Essential DignityConcept

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

• Fifth HouseHouse

  Called Good Fortune in Hellenistic Greek and the house of the child by Dorotheus, who ranked it fourth of the twelve places by strength.

• First HouseHouse

  The place of the Ascendant itself, the Horoskopos that gave the word horoscope its name, and the one house nearly every named source ranks first.

• Fourth HouseHouse

  The lower midheaven and cardine of the earth, ranked sixth-best by Dorotheus, though Ptolemy's own method for parents never names it.

• House DivisionConcept

  Seven house systems divide seven different objects into twelve, which is why a chart tool that offers all seven never agrees with itself.

• Ninth HouseHouse

  Named God for the Sun in Hellenistic Greek, and the Sun's own joy from Firmicus through Lilly, thirteen centuries and one language apart.

• Second HouseHouse

  The house of livelihood and movable goods, named the Gate of Hades in Hellenistic Greek, a name Ptolemy records but does not himself use.

• Seventh HouseHouse

  The Occident, built on the Descendant, called the sign of marriage by Dorotheus and one of the few places Ptolemy's own prose names directly.

• Sixth HouseHouse

  Called Bad Fortune in Hellenistic Greek, ranked among the two weakest of the twelve places by Dorotheus, and given as Mars's joy since Firmicus.

• Tenth HouseHouse

  The Midheaven itself, ranked second-best of the twelve places by Dorotheus and, for Ptolemy, one of his few directly named technical terms.

• The Astronomical Bureau and the Calendar CaseConcept

  Calendar-making as a prerogative of state, the bureau that did it, and the prosecution of 1664 to 1669 that ended in a shadow measurement.

• The TetrabiblosPrimary text

  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.

• Third HouseHouse

  Named Goddess for the Moon in Hellenistic Greek and called her joy by Dorotheus, though Ptolemy's own method for siblings never mentions it.

• Twelfth HouseHouse

  The House of the Bad Daemon, a place Ptolemy names only to say it should be disregarded, ranked worst of the twelve by Dorotheus and Saturn's own joy.

• William LillyPerson

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