In this episode of the serial I’m going to consider medieval directions. Or to be more precise, I begin to consider medieval directions.
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I considered the Hellenistic method of primary directions in two previous posts Primary Directions: the story of calculations (vol.1 and vol.2). Most Hellenistic astrologers directed this way. But there is a very important exception. This exception is Ptolemy.
Ptolemy was an eminent scholar of his time, the level of his knowledges and abilities was much higher than the level of a common astrologer of that time. Ptolemaic method of directions is much more advanced with respect to mathematics and astronomy, than the Hellenistic method I considered before, but his method wasn’t spread among Hellenistic astrologers.
Let’s consider the Ptolemaic method of primary directions as it is described in Tetrabiblos III,10.
I examined the system of ascensions of the Zodiacal signs used by Hellenistic astrologers. You can find it in the previous post of this line. This time we consider Hellenistic method of primary directions. Let’s consider an example of calculation of primary directions from the text of Paulus Alexandrinus.
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