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Astrology 12
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assembled mainly 2nd–1st millennia BCE
Enūma Anu Enlil
A vast series of celestial omens correlating astronomical phenomena with earthly events. One major root of what eventually becomes judicial astrology.
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second century CE
Tetrabiblos
The most influential astrological text ever written, and the reason Western astrology has the shape it has. It sets out the signs, their elements and modalities, the houses of...
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Arabic, probably second half of the tenth century
Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm
A large handbook of astral magic, carried into Renaissance occultism through its Latin translation as the Picatrix.
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1489
Three Books on Life
The most overtly occult of his works: medicine, astrology, music, planetary influence, images, substances, and methods by which the learned can bring themselves into harmony...
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unfinished at his death
Disputations against Divinatory Astrology
Attacks deterministic judicial astrology, despite his earlier enthusiasm for other forms of occult philosophy.
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1555
Les Prophéties
literary work by Nostradamus
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1558
Propaedeumata Aphoristica
Astrological and cosmological aphorisms exploring celestial influences.
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1619
Harmonices Mundi
book by Johannes Kepler
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1647
Christian Astrology
William Lilly’s large practical manual of horary and natal astrology, including concise accounts of the planets and twelve houses.
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1766
Dissertatio physico-medica de planetarum influxu
His medical dissertation on planetary influences and a universal physical fluid.
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1912
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undated