| Translator's Introduction to the Three Books on Judgments of Nativities |
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| .......The Style of the Three Books |
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| .......The Life and Chart of Maximilian I of Hapsburg |
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| ..............The Life and Historical Importance of Maximilian I |
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| ..............The Chart |
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| Three Books on the Judgment of Nativities |
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| .......Dedicatory Epistle |
1 |
| .......The Preface of Philip Melanchthon, Doctor |
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| .......Chapter One:Concerning the Significators and Their Accidents |
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| ..............Certain General Matters Which must Be Considered Before the Judgment of a Nativity |
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| ..............The Method of Investigating the True Degree of the Ascendant by Means of the Animodar |
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| ..............A Second Method of Searching out the True Ascendant |
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| ..............by Means of the Trutine of Hermes |
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| ..............A Third and More Certain Method of Finding the Same |
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| ..............by the Accidents of the Native |
22 |
| ..............Concerning the Projection of the Nativity's Parts |
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| ..............To Find the Dodecatemorion of Any Planet |
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| ..............To Extract the Novenaries of the Planets |
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| ..............Determining the Antiscias |
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| ..............Concerning the Fortitudes or Fortune, and the Debility or Infortune of the Planets |
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| ..............Concerning the Hyleg and Alcochoden According to Ptolemy |
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| ..............The Teaching of Others on the Hyleg |
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| ..............Likewise, the Teaching of Others Concerning the Alcochoden |
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| ..............Extracting the Victor or Lord of the Geniture |
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| ..............Exploring the Significators of the Intellective Power of the Spirit |
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| ..............The Taking of the Almuten of the Significators of Any Matter |
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..............How the Seven Planets Govern the Foetus Which Has then Been Conceived from the Day of
.............. Conception up to the Time of Birth |
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| ..............A General Method: Things that Must be Observed in Judgments |
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| ..............Whether in General the Native Will Be Fortunate or Not |
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| .......Chapter Two: Concerning the Parents and their State of Being |
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..............Concerning the Life of the Father according to the Geniture of the Child, and Concerning
.............. the Quality of his Death |
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| ..............Concerning the Life of the Mother |
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| ..............Prognosticating Other Particulars of the Parents |
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| ..............Teachings and Aphorisms of Others and of the Arabs |
51 |
| .......Chapter Three: Concerning the Native's Brothers and Sisters |
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| ..............Sentences and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............Concerning Male and Female Natives |
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| ..............Concerning Twins |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............Concerning Monsters |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| .......Chapter Four: Concerning Those Who Have Not Grown |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| .....................Concerning Natives Who Are Born Dead |
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| .....................Concerning Natives Who Do Live but Are Not Reared |
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| .....................Concerning Those Who Born and Reared but Who Do Not Attain to Old Age |
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| .....................Concerning Those Who Live, Are Reared, and Who Attain Old Age |
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| .......Chapter Five: Concerning the Form, Figure and Constitution of the Body |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............Concerning the Forms of the Twelve Signs |
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| ..............Concerning the Forms of the Seven Planets |
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| ..............Examining the Tallness, Smallness, or Shortness of the Body |
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| ..............Distinguishing Stoutness and Thinness, and the Quantity of the Body |
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| ..............To Whom Is the Native Made More Alike, Namely, ot the Father or the Mother? |
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| .......Chapter Six: Concerning the Impediments and Infirmities of the Body of the Native |
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| ..............We Will Know Particularly the Manner of Injuries to the Human Body Coming from Four Causes |
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| ..............You Will Recognize Infirmities Inherent in the Entire Body from the Four Following Rules |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............Concerning Serving Men and Women |
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| ..............Concerning Animals and Beasts |
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| .......Chapter Seven: Concerning the Qualities of the Soul of the Native |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............The Dodecatemoria of the Planets |
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| ..............Now Concerning the Images of Heaven: and First Concerning Those in the Zodiac |
128 |
| ..............On the Northern Images |
129 |
| ..............On the Southern Images |
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| .......Chapter Eight: Concerning the Impediments of the Soul |
134 |
| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| .......Chapter Nine: Concerning the Fortune and Wealth of the Native |
137 |
| ..............Exploring by What Means the Native Should Acquire Wealth |
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| ..............Whether Riches Will Come to the Native Licitly or Illicitly |
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| ..............Inferring the Time of [Gaining] Riches |
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| .......Chapter Ten: Concerning the Honor and Dignity of the Native |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| .......Chapter Eleven: Concerning the Native's Magistery and his Work |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............Concerning Boldness and Fear |
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| .......Chapter Twelve: Concerning Sexual Unions |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| .......Chapter Thirteen: Concerning Children and Their Relationship Toward the Parents |
183 |
| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............Whether or Not the Native is the Child of its Father |
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| .......Chapter Fourteen: Concerning the Natives's Friends and Enemies |
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| ..............In Which Time Will They Be in Concord or Discord |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others Concerning Enemies |
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| ..............Exemplification of a Native Concerning Hidden Enemies |
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| .......Chapter Fifteen: Concerning the Natives's Foreign Travels and Journeys |
202 |
| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
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| ..............On the Sciences |
206 |
| .......Chapter Sixteen: Concerning the Qualities of the Native's Death |
212 |
| ..............The Teachings and Aphorisms of Others |
215 |
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| Appendix I --- Computing Antiscia According to the Opusculum |
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| Appendix II --- The Computation of the Hyleg According to Alchabitius |
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| Appendix III --- The Periods of the Planets |
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| Appendix IV --- The Four Differentiae of Life Expectancy |
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| ..............The First Category |
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| ..............The Second Category |
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| ..............The Third Category |
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| ..............The Fourth Category |
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| Appendix V --- Tables of Special Degrees from the Opusculum |
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| Appendix VI --- Similitude from the Opusculum |
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| Appendix VII --- The Table of Essential Dignities as Given in the Opusculum |
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| Appendix VIII --- Dustoria or Ductoria, as Described in the Opusculum |
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