Astrology: What's Really in the Stars?Rather than offering a blistering critique of astrology, Stewart reveals discrepancies within horoscopic astrology's own framework to let the reader decide whether there is any merit to this ancient scheme of things. |
Contents
ASTROLOGY | 13 |
Mesopotamia ca 40001300 B C E | 17 |
The Sorcerer from the cave of Les Trois Frères ca 18000 B C E | 18 |
Map of the Ancient Near East | 20 |
Calcite cylinder seal 3000 B C E | 21 |
Greenstone cylinder seal from Akkad 2300 B C E | 23 |
Ziggurat at Ur | 26 |
Ritual for the observance of eclipses | 28 |
New Babylonian Era ca 600300 B C E | 61 |
Prehoroscopic astrology from Uruk fifth century B C E | 64 |
Oldest horoscope from Babylon 410 B C E | 66 |
Babylonian horoscope from Babylon 258 B C E | 68 |
Babylonian horoscope from Babylon 235 b c e | 69 |
Babylonian horoscope from Uruk 142 B C E | 70 |
Graphchronologies of early horoscopes | 71 |
Astrology in Greece Rome and Hellenistic Egypt | 72 |
Divination by means of the intestines | 29 |
Stone figure of a ram from Uruk ca 3000 B C E | 30 |
Stone figure of a bull from Uruk ca 3000 B C E | 31 |
Copper lion head from Tell AlUbaid 2500 B C E | 32 |
Omen report ca 1830 B C E | 34 |
Model of sheeps liver from Sippar ca 1800 B C E | 35 |
Venus omens Observations of the planet Venus | 36 |
Hittite text thirteenth century B C E mentioning month of birth | 37 |
Boundary stone 1100 B C E | 38 |
Diverse biota on boundary stones | 39 |
Assyrian Era ca 1300600 B C E | 40 |
Sun god tablet from Sippar 860 B C E | 42 |
Omens from eclipse of the moon in Kislev | 44 |
Omens from Cancer in lunar halo | 45 |
Omens from thunder at months end | 46 |
Omens from evening first of Mercury in Taurus | 47 |
Omens from an earthquake | 48 |
Seven omen reports | 49 |
Cuneiform planisphere ca 800 B C E | 53 |
MulAPIN tablet ca 700 B C E | 54 |
Greek papyrus horoscope 138 c E | 77 |
Greek horoscope 4 B C E | 78 |
Greek horoscope 345 C E | 79 |
Astrological material by Vettius Valens 150 ca C E | 86 |
Horoscope by Vettius Valens 106 c E | 87 |
Ptolemy | 89 |
Portion of the Tetrabiblos sixteenthcentury manuscript | 92 |
Contents of the Tetrabiblos | 94 |
Ptolemy and the Tetrabiblos 88888 | 104 |
Current Status | 107 |
Do the Sun Moon Planets | 116 |
Birth versus Conception and Twins | 122 |
Dates of sun entering signs and constellations | 126 |
Selective Memory or the Versatile Human Mind | 128 |
P T Barnum Effect | 129 |
Omen report ca 1000 B C E | 131 |
Conclusion | 138 |
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Akkadian Alexandria Almagest ancient animal appeared Aquarius Aries Assurbanipal astrology astronomical Babylon Babylonian Babylonian horoscope birth boundary stones bull Cancer Capricorn celestial Chaldean chart child is born conception constellation Copyright British Museum cuneiform Cuneiform Studies cycles cylinder seal death degrees divination early earth eclipse Egyptian Enki Enlil Enuma Anu Enlil equinox exist fifth century B.C.E. figure garakku Gemini gods Greek Horoscopes heaven Hellenistic Hipparchus Hittite Hoesen horo Inanna Ishtar Jupiter Kassite king known land later Libra lion lunar Marduk Mars Mercury Mesopotamia millennium month mul.APIN mythology Nammu Neugebauer and H numbers observed oldest Omen report Otto Neugebauer period Photograph copyright British Pisces planet Venus planetary precession predictions priests Ptolemy Ptolemy's Roman Sagittarius Saturn Scorpio seasons Seleucid Seleucid Era Shamash Skeptical Inquirer stars Sumerian sun sign symbols tablets Taurus Tetrabiblos tion twins University Uruk Venus omens Vettius Valens Virgo Zeus ziggurat zodiac zodiacal constellations