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Notes on the traditional sources

Each article gives the passage, the translation and the page, and says where the sources disagree.

Woodcut diagram of the primary qualities, with the hot, cold, dry and moist corners joined by lines marked possible and impossible, from a treatise on the complexions, about 1495.

Temperament

Oct 28, 2026

How does Ptolemy judge temperament from the planets?

How Ptolemy judges a person's mixture of hot, cold, moist and dry from the planets, read closely from the Tetrabiblos, Book I and Book III.

7 min read

Woodcut of an armillary sphere with the zodiac band across it, from the Sphaera mundi printed by Erhard Ratdolt, 1485.

Sect

Oct 27, 2026

How the old astrologers told a day chart from a night chart

How the old texts tell a day chart from a night chart, and what Ptolemy, Valens and Dorotheus say the difference changes for the planets.

8 min read

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