By Scott E. Hendrix
A learn that analyzes the readership of a piece generally known as a "Speculum astronomiae" from the time of its creation within the mid-thirteenth century to the purpose whilst it lapsed from discovered discourse to within the overdue 15th century.
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To complicate matters, these two groups generally shared a conception of cosmology in which the transmission of celestial influences to the sublunar realm opened the door wide to the theoretical use of mathematical astronomy to determine future patterns of influence and resultant events. 110 But this shared model maintained by opponents on both sides of the debate served only to incense adversaries, as neither side could understand why the other disagreed over the crucial issue of appeals to predictive astrology.
116 John D. North, “Medieval Concepts of Celestial Influence: A Survey,” Astrology, Science and Society. Historical Essays, Patrick Curry, ed. (Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 1987): 5-18, p. 5; John North, “Celestial Influence—the Major Premiss of Astrology,”“Astrologi hallucinati:” Stars and the End of the World in Luther’s Time, Paola Zambelli, ed. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986): 45-100; Jourdain, pp. 31, 37, 75, 124, 173, 327. 117 Richard Lemay, Abu Ma’shar and Latin Aristotelianism (Beirut: The Catholic Press, 1962), introduction and chapter 1; Richard Lemay, “The True Place of Astrology in Medieval Science and Philosophy: Towards a Definition,” in Astrology, Science and Society: Historical Essays, Patrick Curry, ed.
Per stellas surdas et mutas sicut per instrumenta . . , p. 222, chpt. 4. “Sed isti parti associantur illi libri maledicti necromatici, de imaginibus . . ” Albert writes here about the construction of astrological images meant to harness celestial influence to effect terrestrial changes. This is a s ub-discipline of a form of astrology known as “elections,” the choosing of propitious times for a given activity. Therefore, Albert’s comments 39 suffumigations 131 and demonic invocations that such superstitious works encourage, the result is the practice of a truly noble scientia.