Index
For Arabic names:
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‘al’ has not been counted for indexing, but ‘Abu’, ‘Ibn’, etc. have been. Thus al-Bīrūnī appears under under ‘b’, Abū Maʿshar appears under ‘a’
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‘b.’ has been written as ‘Ibn’
Aachen, Johannes von
165
Abū Maʿshar
17, 191
Adler Planetarium, Chicago
22–23
al-Ashraf ʿUmar see Ashraf ʿUmar
al-Battani see Battani
Albion (instrument)
31
al-Bīrūnī see Bīrūnī
Albohazen Haly see al-Shaybānī
Alcabitius see Qabīṣī
alchemy
59, 212, 246, 250
al-Farghānī see Farghānī
Alfonsine Tables
37, 189
alidade
27, 34, 39, 44, 51
ʿAlī Ibn ʿIsā
5, 9–12, 15, 254
al-Iṣfahānī see Iṣfahānī
al-Khujandī see Khujandī
al-Khwārizmī see Khwārizmī
Allen, Elias
110, 116, 118, 126–127, 131
almanac
121, 231, 250, 263
al-Miṣrī see Miṣrī
almucantar
29, 45, 62, 78, 263
almuten
96, 263
al-Qabīṣī see Qabīṣī
al-Shaybānī see Shaybānī
al-Wāsiṭī see Wāsiṭī
ambiguous markings
6, 14–15, 254–255
Amman, Jost
232, 234
Apianus, Petrus (Peter Bienewitz)
30, 118
Astronomicum Caesareum
30, 118–120
Cosmographia
118, 120
Instrument Buch
173, 175
Apollonius
160
applying/application
105–106, 263, 271
Aquinas, Thomas
24–25
Arachne see sundial
Archaeological Museum, Baghdād
12
Arezzo
134
armillary sphere
68, 153–154, 180–209, 233–234, 251–252, 255–256, 259
Arsenius, Gualterus
79–81
his workshop
70, 78
Arthaud, Louis
128–129, 131
ascendant
7–11, 14, 20, 66, 93, 103, 146–147, 173, 213, 218–219, 221, 263, 266–267, 269, 271
Ashmole, Elias
212, 214–215, 229, 245
al-Ashraf ʿUmar
23
aspect
42, 48, 53–54, 56, 58–59, 96, 104–132, 134, 138–141, 148–149, 239–240, 257, 263–266, 271
conjunction
105–108, 138, 239–240, 264, 266
opposition
53, 56, 59, 105–108, 138, 146, 193, 239, 264, 271
quadrature see square
semi-square (or sesquiquadrature)
54, 56, 108, 264
sextile
48, 53, 59, 105–108, 116, 125–132, 138, 148, 264–265, 273
square (or quadrature)
48, 53–54, 56, 59, 105–108, 114, 116, 124–132, 136, 138, 264, 273
trine
48, 53, 59, 105–108, 114, 116, 125–132, 136, 138, 148, 264–265, 274
aspectarium
72, 104–132, 133, 135–139, 142, 259, 264
astrarium
141
astrolabe
4–19, 22–23, 24–41, 42–46, 58, 60, 61–66, 70–71, 77–85, 86–92, 98–99, 112–114, 116, 123, 126–129, 160–166, 170, 172–174, 176, 178, 186–187, 230, 232, 245–247, 254–255, 257
astrologer
40, 42, 46, 56, 96, 99–100, 105–106, 108–109, 136, 138–140, 142, 151, 153–154, 159, 173–174, 177, 210–215, 219, 230–252, 256, 258, 260, 265, 267
consulting space
153–154, 241, 245–246, 256, 260
court
9, 24, 46, 50, 106–107, 117, 142, 181–183, 196
depiction
4, 153–154, 210–212, 230–252, 258–259
satirical representation
245–251, 260
Astrologia see astrology, personification
astrological diptych
61–85
astrological disc
70–73, 77, 81, 97–99, 109, 114, 116–118, 121, 126–127, 220
astrological markings
5–7, 9–10, 12–13, 15, 17, 178, 253–255
astrological plate
42–52, 54–58
astrology
and agriculture
138, 148, 257
and astronomy
145, 151, 183, 208, 210, 212, 230–231, 249
books as practical aids
15, 54, 70, 106, 141, 145, 153–154, 229, 233–236, 238–239, 244–246, 250–251, 259.
casebook, ephemeris, table
classification
230–231, 253
consultant
144, 230–231, 234, 238–251, 260
definition
24–25
determinism
236, 239–241, 251, 255
election/electional
59, 66, 73, 138, 140, 148–149, 212, 231–232, 268
horary
54, 231, 239, 243–244, 266, 269
judicial
230–231, 239, 244 253, 259, 270
limits of prediction
24–25
medical
42–60, 63, 106, 112–113, 121–123, 140–141, 211, 244, 253, 257, 260, 269
mundane
270
personification
236
Ptolemaic
257, 263.
Ptolemy
and religion
106, 241, 253
and weather
25, 108, 148, 253, 263
astronomer
9, 13, 25, 30, 40–41, 60, 92, 105, 108, 139, 151, 157, 161, 181, 207, 230–231
depiction
230, 258
Astronomia see astronomy, personification
astronomical clock
86–87, 112, 133–152, 158, 165–168, 178, 256–258
astronomical compendium
26, 30, 39, 84, 109–111, 119, 121, 123–127
astronomical markings
254–255
astronomy
4, 6, 8, 14, 19, 29, 33, 38, 40, 46, 59, 68, 81, 90, 96, 116, 118, 134, 139–140, 144–146, 151, 155, 158, 187, 193, 204, 207, 209, 211, 221, 234, 236, 249, 251, 253–256, 258, 260, 262, 268, 274
and astrology
145, 151, 183, 208, 210, 212, 230–231, 249
personification
236
Augsburg
80, 109, 112, 126, 128, 131–132, 165–166
Austrian National Library, Vienna
100, 176
Badr, mawlā of Hibat Allāh al-Aṣṭurlābī
22
Baghdād
5, 12–13, 17, 22
Barbaro, Daniele
161
Barocci, Giovanni Maria
137
Bartolomeo Arlojo see Manfredi, Bartolomeo
al-Battani
92
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
154, 164, 166, 174–175, 177
Bern
165
Beyser, J.D.
128–129, 131
Bianchini, Giovanni
190
Bienewitz, Peter see Apianus, Petrus
al-Bīrūnī
14, 17, 267
Blaeu, Willem
213–215, 218–219, 221, 223, 226
Blundeville, Thomas
220–221, 258
Booker, John
241, 243, 250
Brahe, Tycho
92, 107, 157, 251–252
Braunschweig
87, 130, 132
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum
88, 90
Bredon, Simon
31
Breitenberg
96
Brescia
134
British Library
62, 64–65, 74–75, 80, 82–83, 115
British Museum
82, 89, 109, 112, 117, 125–131, 162, 259
Buschmann, Johannes
112, 128–129, 131
Butler, John
215
Christologia
215
Butler, Samuel
247–250
Hudibras
247–250
calendar
11, 27, 29–31, 37, 56, 110, 123, 153, 179, 185–186, 189, 204, 211, 213, 263.
perpetual calendar
Cambridge
66–67
Campanazzi, Vincenzo
232
Campanus, Johannes
32, 39, 41, 267
division
Caput Draconis
28, 72, 95, 140, 264, 268.
lunar nodes
Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Juan de
173–177
Cardano, Girolamo
72, 116, 265, 273
cardinal (astrological)
7–10, 13, 19–21
houses/signs or cardines
19, 93, 215, 264
ascendant, descendant, Imum Coeli, Medium Coeli
Carraresi, Ubertino I de’
134
casebook
241, 243–245, 260
Cassiodorus
141
Cauda Draconis
72, 95, 140, 265, 273.
lunar nodes
celestial globe see globe
celestial sphere
160, 163, 183, 185–186, 263, 265, 274
Cesariano, Cesare
161
Charles I (of England)
239
Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
118
chart (astrological)
24, 54, 94–96 153, 190, 205, 213, 217, 221, 231–232, 239–240, 243, 251, 260, 263–271, 273
construction
6, 25, 40, 100, 188, 212, 236, 238, 242–244, 250, 259
horoscope
chart (sea)
67–69, 261
chronocrator see time, lord of
circle of position
215–216, 218–219, 221, 228–229
Clavius, Christoph
171
clock (mechanical)
86, 112, 123, 126–129, 133–152, 153, 155, 158, 162–168, 170, 178–179, 245, 256–258.
astronomical clock, water clock
Clusone
134, 136
Cock, Hieronymous
236
Cole, Humfrey
110–111, 116, 118, 121, 126–129, 131
Coley, Henry
241–242, 247
Clavis Astrologiae
241–242
Cologne
109, 121, 123, 128, 131–132, 168
comet
181–183, 212–213, 217–218, 228, 245
compass (magnetic)
104, 123, 186, 192, 196, 204
compasses (drawing)
68, 245.
dividers
compendium see astronomical compendium
conjunction see aspect
Constantine I
106
Copernicus, Nicolaus
251–252
cosmography
68, 81–82, 118, 120, 180–183, 185, 190, 196, 199, 211
Courtenay, Richard, Bishop of Norwich
24, 27
Cremona
134, 140, 152
crisis/critical day
47–56, 63–66, 71–73, 76, 266.
astrology, medical
cross-staff
233–234, 248–251, 259
Cross, Thomas
241–242
Curry, Patrick
230–231
Danti, Egnazio
182, 185, 197
Dār al-Āthār al-Islāmiyya, Cairo
23
Dār al-Baṭḥā, Fez
22–23
Dariot, Claude
70, 73–76, 97
Dasypodius, Conrad
165
Davids Samling, Copenhagen
22–23
debility
63, 66, 93, 266–267
decan
14, 17–19, 22–23, 42, 63, 72, 76, 93, 95–96, 266, 268
Dee, John
99n27, 117–118, 121, 124, 220, 231, 251
degree
63, 266
azimene (or deficient or lame)
63, 72, 76, 96, 264, 266
dark
63, 72, 76, 97–98, 266
decreasing or diminishing fortune
97
empty (or void or vacant)
48, 63, 72, 76, 97–98, 266
increasing or augmenting fortune
63, 72, 76, 97, 266
lucid (or luminous or light)
63, 72, 76, 97–98, 266
masculine and feminine
63, 72, 76, 97–98, 266
pitted (or deep)
63, 72, 76, 97, 266
smoky
63, 72, 76, 97–98, 266
Dekker, Elly
211
De Morgan, Augustus
83–84
depression
63, 72, 76, 95, 106, 112, 266–268
descendant
8–10, 20, 93, 146–147, 151, 266
Descrolières, Adrian
78
destiny see fate
determinism see astrology
detriment
53, 63, 72, 76, 266–267
Dibner Library
70
dignity (astrological)
6, 53–54, 56, 66, 90–92, 95, 254, 263, 266–267, 270
accidental
93–94, 96, 263, 266–267
essential
6, 14, 63, 92–98, 266–268
direction (astrological)
188, 190, 267, 273
dividers
232n5, 234–236, 238, 241–242, 245, 251–252, 259.
compasses (drawing)
division (of astrological houses)
6, 42, 44–45, 90, 175, 177–178, 188–189, 218, 220, 229, 256, 258, 267–268
Alcabitius, common or standard method
176, 267
Campanus method
176–178, 206, 215, 217, 267
equal house or Ptolemaic method
173, 267
Placidus or hour-line method
45, 267
Porphyry method
267
Regiomontanus or equatorial method
45, 62, 96, 103, 173, 175–178, 207, 215, 220–221, 267
Divizioli, Francesco and Giovan Battista
140
domicile
53, 63, 72, 76, 95–96, 266, 268, 270
Dondi, Giovanni
141, 151
Dondi, Jacopo
134–135
Dorn, Hans
116, 117, 126–129, 131
Dresden
88, 109, 128, 130, 132
Düringer, Hans
165, 167–168
eclipse
140, 193
ecliptic
7, 9, 13–15, 17, 28, 36–37, 42, 44–45, 51, 63, 66, 78–79, 95–96, 99, 105, 112, 157, 164, 171–177, 183, 186–188, 190, 193–194, 203–205, 211, 213, 215, 217–221, 264–265, 267–268, 270, 274
Edward VI (of England)
77, 98, 116
election see astrology
Elmqvist Söderlund, Inga
239
England
24, 68–69, 77, 124, 126, 128, 220, 238
Engueran, Pierre
165
ephemeris/ephemerides
46, 66, 99, 101–102, 188, 190, 218, 221, 243–246, 250–251, 260, 268.
table
equal hours
44–48, 51, 58, 157–158, 162–163, 172, 178, 264, 268, 273
equatorium
24, 26–27, 30–41, 268
Escorial, Madrid
180, 191–192, 194
Eudoxus
160–161
Everart, Martin
244
exaltation
53, 63, 72, 76, 93, 95–96, 106, 112, 266, 268, 270
face see decan
fall see depression
Fanzago, Pietro
134, 136
al-Farghānī, Abu’l -ʿAbbās Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Kathīr
5, 10, 16
fate
104, 121, 146, 236, 251
Felice da Fossato
134
Ferdinand of Spain
118
figure see chart
Finé, Oronce
160, 171, 173, 176–177
Firmicus Maternus, Julius
8, 106
Florence
180–181, 204–205, 207.
Imperial and Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History, Museo Galileo, Museum of Antique Instruments, Palazzo Vecchio, Pitti Palace, Torrigiani Palace, Uffizi Gallery
Fludd, Robert
212, 236, 238
Utriusque Cosmi Historia
212, 236, 238
Forman, Simon
230, 241, 243–244, 260
France
112, 124, 126, 128, 132
free will
236, 241–242, 255
Frisius, Gemma
81, 211, 219–221
Frobisher, Martin
118
Fusoris, Jean
24–30, 39, 165
“Motus medii planetarum”
28–30, 40
Galen (Claudius Galenus)
67, 141
De Diebus Decretoriis
141
Galilei, Galileo
183, 197
Gaurico, Luca
232
Gemini, Thomas
77–78, 80–81, 98, 116, 118, 121
geniture
24–25, 54, 66, 103, 188, 190, 205, 215, 231–232, 265–266, 268, 270
Gennari, Paolo
134
geometry
32, 68, 104–105, 107–109, 114, 124, 135–136, 138, 145, 156, 161, 163, 173–174, 206, 234, 236
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
44, 47, 49, 51–52, 57
Germany
42, 109, 124, 126, 128, 132, 133, 155, 256
globe
82, 153, 210–229, 230, 245, 248, 258–259
celestial
72, 77, 81, 210–229, 234–236, 238–242, 258
depiction
211, 233–242, 250, 258
terrestrial
81, 182–183, 186, 193, 197, 202, 204–205, 211, 258
circle of position, horizon ring, hour ring, meridian ring, quadrant of altitude, semicircle of position
gnomon
45, 157n6, 159, 161, 169–171, 179, 232
Gonzaga family
142
Gonzaga, Ludovico
145
Görlitz
155–162, 168, 174, 178–179, 256.
sundial
Habermel, Erasmus
46–47, 49, 51, 59–60, 78
Habrecht, Isaak
165
Haly Albohazen see al-Shaybānī
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
4n1
Hartmann, Georg
51–52, 54–58, 60, 70–72, 100
head of the dragon see Caput Draconis
hebdomada
50, 269
Heiden, Christian
112, 116, 128–129, 131
Heiden, Johannes Paulinus
116, 126–127, 131
Heilbronn
126, 131
Henry V (of England)
24
Hermes Trismegistus
246
Historisches Museum, Basel
73, 109, 114, 124–127, 222
Hogarth, William
247–248, 250
Holbein, Hans
222
Hood, Thomas
61–85, 220, 261
horary astrology see astrology
horizon ring
186, 193, 204–205, 211, 213, 215, 218, 220–221, 224–226
horoscope
6–8, 40, 46, 54, 87, 91, 96, 100, 103–104, 109, 140, 153, 159, 173–175, 178, 212–213, 215, 221, 232, 254, 265, 268–269.
chart
Horozco, Sebastián de Covarrubias
236–237
Emblemas morales
236–237
hours see equal hours, unequal hours
house (astrological)
6–9, 11–12, 43–46, 51, 62, 65–66, 85, 90, 93, 103, 155, 159, 175, 205, 213–214, 217–220, 239–240, 254, 264–266, 269–271.
division
humours
48, 54, 58–59, 96
Hungary
126
iatromathematics see medical astrology
Ibn Mu’ādh
177
Imperial and Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History, Florence
197
Imum Coeli
8–10, 146–147, 267, 270
indicative days
48, 50, 53–56, 63
Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence see Museo Galileo
instruments
construction
4–12, 26–41, 60, 255
court context
50, 207
definition
261–262
didactic/pedagogical uses
40, 50, 59, 82, 99, 187–188, 196, 205, 251, 212, 260
paper
42, 51–60, 114, 118, 120, 123, 153, 173, 177, 214, 260–261
symbolic role
50, 67, 207, 234–236, 251, 257, 260, 262
Iran
15
Iraq
15, 22
Iṣfahān
22–23
al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad and Muḥammad
22
al-Iṣfahānī, Ḥāmid Ibn Maḥmūd
23
Italy
124, 126, 128, 133–134, 256–257
Jacobs, Coenrad
128–129, 131
Jerome, Saint
234
John of Linières
31, 39
John of Seville
116
judicial astrology see astrology
Kepler, Johannes
107–108, 263–264
Harmonice Mundi
108
al-Khujandī, Ḥāmid Ibn al-Khiḍr
5, 13–19, 22, 255
al-Khwārizmī, Muḥammad Ibn Mūsā
4–5, 8–12, 15, 254
Kirmān
23
Klieber, Tobias
126–127, 131, 165–166
Klieber, Ulrich
126–127, 131
Krakow
128, 132
Kratzer, Nicolaus
134
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
93, 97–98
Kūshyār Ibn Labbān
17
Kynvyn, James
110, 118, 126–127, 131
leap year
27, 31
Leeuwarden
128, 131
Leonae, A.
128–129, 131
Leowitz, Cyprian
94
Library of Congress
224
Lillienfeld, Nicolaus
165
Lilly, William
212–213, 215, 229, 230, 239–241, 244–245, 247, 250–251, 258, 267
Christian Astrology
229, 239–240, 244
limb (of instrument)
31–32, 46, 62, 64–65
limit see term
Linden, Johann Anton
126–127, 131
Lok, Michael
118
London
61, 67–69, 77–78, 83–85, 116, 118, 121, 124, 126, 128, 131–132, 241–243, 259.
National Gallery, National Maritime Museum, Royal College of Physicians, Royal Society, Science Museum
Louvain
70, 78, 81, 116, 118, 121, 124, 126, 132, 220
lower mid-heaven see Imum Coeli
luminaries
105–106, 138, 265, 270.
Moon, Sun
Lumley, Lord
67
lunar mansion
17–19, 42, 53, 72, 270
lunar nodes
28, 95, 114, 140, 193, 217–219, 221, 229, 254, 258, 264–265, 270.
Cauda Draconis, Caput Draconis
Luyken, Jan and Casper
232–234, 236
Het Menselyk Bedryf
232–234
Lyon
73, 128, 131, 165
macrocosm/microcosm
59–60, 236, 243
Madrid
191, 193.
Escorial, Madrid
magic
4, 15, 231, 246–247, 250
Manfredi, Bartolomeo
134, 144, 151, 165
Manfredi, Girolamo
56
mansion see domicile
Mantua
134, 140, 142–152, 165, 256–258
Marshall, William
240
mater
13, 60–62, 65, 77, 85
Maynard, Samuel
83–85
medical astrology see astrology
Medici, Cosimo I de’
181
Medici, Cosimo II de’
181
Medici, Ferdinand I de’
180–181, 183, 191, 196, 207
Medium Coeli
9–10, 66, 146–147, 267, 270, 274
Melanchthon, Philipp
92
melothesia or melothesic man see Zodiac Man
Melton, John
245–247, 260
Astrologaster
245–247
Menusier, Hierosme Vize
126–127, 132
Mercator, Gerard
70, 72–73, 76–81, 97–99, 114, 116–118, 121, 124, 126–127, 132, 211, 220, 222–226
meridian ring
183, 186–187, 193, 199–201, 204, 213, 215, 217–219, 222, 224
Merton College, Oxford
30–39
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
22–23
Micheli, Pietro Adamo de’
144–151
mid-heaven see Medium Coeli
al-Miṣrī, Ἀbd al-Karīm
92
Molyneux, Emery
82
Moon
14, 18–19, 28–29, 31, 34–35, 48–51, 53–56, 63, 72, 102–103, 104–105, 110, 114, 116, 121–125, 131, 135–136, 138–142, 146–149, 159, 163, 188, 193–194, 204–206, 218–219, 249, 257, 266, 270–272, 274.
lunar mansion, lunar nodes, volvelle
moon dial
110, 123, 250
Moxon, Joseph
214–215
Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie
213–219, 221, 223–224, 226–227, 258
Muḥammad Ibn Jaʿfar Ibn ʿUmar
23
Müller, Hans of Königsberg see Regiomontanus
Munich
88, 109–110, 126, 128, 132.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Münster, Sebastian
171
mural sextant
13
Museo Galileo, Florence
109, 125–129, 180, 199–202, 206, 208
Museum of Antique Instruments, Florence
197–198
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
22–23
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
22–23, 109, 122, 125–131, 259
mutual reception
266, 270
Napier, Richard
230, 241, 243–245, 260
Napier’s bones
250
Nasṭūlus
5, 13
National Gallery, London
222
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
77, 80, 109, 111, 113, 119–120, 125–129, 226, 259
nativity see geniture
Netherlands
112, 124, 128
nocturnal
104, 109–110, 117–118, 121–122, 128–129
nodal point see Caput Draconis, Cauda Draconis, Part of Fortune
North, John D.
175–177
Nuremberg
43, 45, 51, 58, 109–110, 112, 116, 120, 123, 128, 130–132, 173.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Observatoire de Paris
251–252
opposition see aspect
orb or orbes planetarum
96, 263, 271
Origanus, David
244
Oß, Matthias von
165
Oursian, Nicolas
134
Oxford
31, 33.
Merton College, Museum of the History of Science
Padua
134–135, 141, 144, 151
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
182, 197
paper instruments see instruments
Paris
24, 173.
Observatoire de Paris
Part of Fortune
217, 219, 229, 270–271
patent
84
Patent Office Library
82–84
Pau
126, 132
Pencz, Georg
236
perpetual calendar
104, 112, 123, 128–129
Philip II (of Spain)
191
Philopono, Francesco
142–144
Philoponus, Ioannes
4–12, 15, 19–21, 163, 254
physician
24, 42, 46, 50–51, 54, 56, 66–67, 73, 97, 140–141, 212, 244
Pineau
128–129, 132
pinnule
31, 33–34, 39, 45
Pietro d’Abano
151
Pisa
182
Pitti Palace, Florence
182, 197
Pius V, Pope
137
Placidus de Titis
45, 267–268
planetary hours
71, 76–77, 85, 87, 140, 142–143, 146, 149, 155–156, 159–169, 172–176, 179, 187, 219, 250, 256–257, 271–272, 274
planetary house see domicile
planetary ruler
42, 54, 62, 65, 71, 86, 95–96, 165, 188–189, 196, 266, 270, 272–274
planets
7, 10, 12, 14, 17–19, 22–25, 28–30, 32–33, 36, 42, 46, 56, 62–66, 72, 81, 90, 93, 99, 105, 108–109, 114, 121, 131, 140, 153, 159, 167–169, 175, 185–188, 190, 193, 196, 204–206, 217–221, 226–229, 231, 234–235, 239–240, 243, 254–255, 258, 263–274
Jupiter
14, 18–19, 34, 36, 159, 188, 205, 218, 239–240, 271–274
Mars
14, 17–19, 34, 36, 151, 159, 188, 202, 271–274
Mercury
14, 17–19, 34, 36, 159, 188, 206, 271–274
Saturn
14, 18–19, 29, 34, 36, 159, 188, 206, 218, 227, 239–240, 249, 269, 271–274
Venus
14, 18–19, 36–37, 106, 148–149, 159, 188, 206, 227, 271–274
debility, dignity, luminaries, Moon, planetary hours, planetary rulers, Sun, time
planisphere
28, 68, 81
plumb-line
31
Porphyry of Tyre
267
Poulle, Emmanuel
31, 133, 138–139, 162
Prague
46, 50, 78, 107, 165
Proclus Lycaeus Diadochus
185
progression see direction
promittor
190, 273
Ptolemy, Claudius
92–93, 95, 105–106, 108, 116, 155, 190–191, 205, 253, 257
Ptolemaic system
28, 32, 140, 205
Tetrabiblos
92, 105, 139, 155, 190–191, 205, 231–232, 253
astrology, Ptolemaic
al-Qabīṣī
17, 70, 106–107, 114–116, 118, 176, 267
Book of the Introduction to Astrology
70, 106, 114–115, 124
quadrant (instrument)
173, 175, 182, 236
quadrant of altitude
217–218, 222
quartile see aspect
“Quia nobilissima scientia astronomie” treatise
31, 37, 39
qibla
6
Ralegh (or Raleigh), Walter
68
Rambaldoni, Vittorino de’ (Vittorino da Feltre)
144, 151
Rantzau, Heinrich
71, 86–103
Rauber, Caspar
112, 126–127, 132
rays (astrological)
6, 11–16, 107
casting the rays
6, 11–16, 264–265
Rayy
13, 22
Regiomontanus (Hans Müller of Königsberg)
175–176, 190, 267
Reichle, Melchior
126–127, 132
Reinmann, Paul
110
rejoicing
63, 72, 76, 96
religion
10–11, 15–16, 253, 255
prayer times
6, 11, 255
religious feasts
29–30
Remmerdes, Jeronimus
87
rete
7, 12–13, 27, 37, 42–45, 60, 61–66, 68, 70, 77–81, 112, 160–161, 163, 165, 173
retrograde
33, 273
revolution of the years
188–191, 273
Richard of Wallingford
31
Roberts, H.
128–129, 132
Rojas projection
110, 112–113
Rome
128, 131, 180–181, 191
Royal College of Physicians (London)
67, 244
Royal Museums Greenwich see National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Royal Society of London
214, 249
Rudolph II (Holy Roman Emperor)
50, 107
Ryther, Augustine
68
Sachs, Hans
232, 234
Sacrobosco, Johannes de
171–172
Salzburg
88
Samarqand
23
Santucci, Antonio
180–209, 255–256
“Trattato di diversi istrumenti matematici”
182, 196, 209
Trattato nuovo delle comete
181–183
“Trattato sopra la nuova invenzione della sfera armillare”
180–181, 185–193, 196, 204–209
Santucci, Enea
196, 203
Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam
222–225
Schissler, Christoph
109–110, 123, 126–127, 130–132
Schissler, Hans Christoph junior
110, 128–129, 132
Schleswig-Holstein
92
Schniep, Alexius
110, 130–132
Schniep, Ulrich
110, 121–122, 126–129, 132
Schöner, Johannes
70, 94–95, 211, 216, 219, 221–224
Science Museum, London
109, 125–129, 259
scientific instruments see instruments
Scultetus, Bartholomaeus
157, 160, 169
Scultetus, Zaccharias
157, 160–161, 169
sea chart see chart
seasonal hours see unequal hours
Sebokht, Severus
4–12, 15, 19–21, 254
semicircle of position
215, 217–226, 229, 258
separation/separating
48, 105–106, 263, 271, 273
sextile see aspect
shadow square
30–31
al-Shaybānī, Abū l-Ḥasan ‘Alī Ibn Abī l-Rijāl
151
sign
17–19, 37, 45–46, 49, 63, 65–66, 70, 72, 90–91, 95–96, 98, 101–102, 106, 140, 146–147, 188, 196, 205, 239–240, 243, 264–266, 268, 272–274
Aquarius
19, 49, 272, 274
Aries
18, 37, 49, 53, 66, 95, 149, 151, 239–240, 264, 272–274
Cancer
18, 37, 49, 100, 102, 264, 272–274.
Tropic
Capricorn
19, 49, 264, 272, 274.
Tropic
Gemini
18, 49, 100, 102, 272, 274
Leo
18, 49, 100, 102, 213, 272, 274
Libra
18, 49, 95, 264, 272–274
Pisces
19, 49, 106, 239–240, 272, 274
rulership over parts of the body
53–54, 63, 72, 148, 251.
Zodiac Man
Sagittarius
18, 49, 182, 205–206, 272, 274
Scorpio
18, 49, 151, 272, 274
Taurus
18, 49, 100, 102, 147–149, 213, 272, 274
Virgo
17–18, 49, 100, 102, 106, 272, 274
significator
190
Solarium see sundial
square see aspect
Stadius, Johannes
244
star/stars
7, 12–13, 24–25, 28, 30, 42, 44, 56, 60, 64–66, 77–78, 81–82, 107, 108, 110, 118, 153, 183, 186–188, 190–191, 193, 196, 203–206, 210–211, 236, 239, 241, 249, 270, 272
Stift Seitenstetten, Austria
91
Stöffler, Johannes
92, 163–164, 172
Sun
14, 18–19, 27–28, 30, 36–38, 45, 49, 51, 54, 66, 87, 93, 95–96, 102, 104–106, 114, 121–123, 125, 131, 135–136, 138–142, 146–149, 153, 156–157, 159–161, 163–165, 169–173, 175, 186–188, 193, 204–205, 213, 219, 256–257, 268, 270–274
sundial
45, 51, 60, 86, 110, 123, 128–129, 155–158, 160–161, 168–175, 178–179, 236, 245, 251, 256, 260
Arachne
155–161, 168–170, 174–175, 178–179
Dieppe-type
112
diptych
109–110, 112, 116, 124–125, 128–129
horizontal
128–131, 173
Katharinenkirche, Oppenheim
168–171, 174, 178
magnetic azimuth
128–129
mathematical construction
169–178
mechanical equinoctial
112, 128–129
Solarium
156–158
spherical
162
universal equinoctial
130–131
vertical disc
112, 130–131
table (astrological/astronomical/mathematical)
6, 14–15, 17–19, 28–30, 33, 37, 39–41, 46, 61, 63–66, 70–77, 91, 95–96, 141–142, 153, 155, 159–160, 166, 172, 177–178, 218, 221, 229, 231, 244, 251, 261.
almanac, ephemeris
tabular instrument
28–29, 71, 86–103, 254
tail of the dragon see Cauda Draconis
telescope
108, 234–235, 246–247, 249–250, 259
term
14, 17–19, 22–23 42, 63, 72, 76, 93, 95–96, 266, 270, 273
according to Cardano
72
Egyptian
95
Tetrabiblos see Ptolemy, Claudius
Throckmorton, Arthur
68
tide
187, 193
calculator/computer
104, 123
time
astronomical
155, 204, 256
astrological
155, 158, 168–169, 178–179, 256
civil
168–169, 172, 178–179
lord of
86–87, 155, 266, 270
timekeeping/time-telling
6–9, 11, 13, 17, 44–45, 51, 86, 96, 102, 104, 110, 123, 139, 146, 153–179, 187, 193, 204, 207, 213, 217–218, 220, 230–232, 243–245, 250–251, 255–257, 260.
astronomical clock, clock, sundial, water clock
Tomkis, Thomas
246–247, 260
Albumazar
246–247
Torrigiani Palace, Florence
197–198
Trechsler, Christoph the Elder
128–132
trigon see triplicity
trine see aspect
Trinity College, Cambridge
67
triplicity
42, 52, 56, 63, 72, 76, 93, 95–96, 266, 273–274
lord of the
14, 17–19, 22–23, 52, 54, 56, 95, 270, 274
Tropic
186, 203, 211
Cancer
43, 48, 58–59, 62, 65, 183
Capricorn
43, 45, 48, 58–59, 65, 79, 183
Troschel, Hans the Elder
110, 116, 128–129, 132
Troschel, Hans the Younger
110, 116, 128–129, 132
Tucher family
110
tympanum
163–164, 173–174, 176, 178
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
182, 197, 207
unequal hours
6, 43–45, 48, 51, 62, 87, 142, 155, 159, 162–167, 170–174, 178, 186–188, 193, 196, ,201, 203–208, 219, 256, 274.
equal hours, planetary hours
upper mid-heaven see Medium Coeli
Valens, Vettius
267
Van Cleempoel, Koenraad
78–80
Vanden Broecke, Steven
81
Vesalius, Andreas
265
Vienna
117, 123, 128, 130–132.
Austrian National Library
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo
141
Vitruvius
160–162
Vittorino da Feltre see Rambaldoni, Vittorino de’
Volckmer, Tobias the Elder
87’91, 130–132
volvelle
61, 63–66, 74, 76, 116, 118’121, 127, 176, 274
lunar
104, 110, 112–113, 116, 123–124, 127, 129, 131, 259
Vopel, Caspar
121, 123, 128–129, 132
al-Wāsiṭī, Ḥāmid Ibn ʿAlī
22
watch
128–129, 135, 139, 245, 250
water clock
232
Weigel, Christoph
234–236
Centi-folium stultorum in quarto
234–235
Weydmann, Lucas
128–129, 132
Whitwell, Charles
68, 71, 110, 118–119, 126–127, 132
Wilmoth, Frances
241
wind rose
47, 204
wind vane
104, 110
Wittenberg
92
Woodcroft, Bennet
84
Yemen
23
zij
92, 254, 274
zodiac
27, 31, 37, 44–45, 49, 52, 61, 63, 72, 76, 93, 95–96, 108, 110, 114, 121–122, 124–125, 131, 133–135, 139, 155, 163, 175, 187–189, 193–194, 203–205, 211, 213, 217, 221, 228, 254, 259, 263, 266–268, 271, 273–274.
degree, sign
Zodiac Man
53–54, 63, 251–252, 270, 274–275.
sign