The Chaldean astrologers (1)

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Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.6.2:
For the rest, as to astrology, the effects produced on the human course of life by the twelve signs, the five planets, the sun and moon, we must give way to the calculations of the Chaldean astrologers, because the casting of nativities is special to them so that they can explain the past and the future from astronomical calculations. Those who have sprung from the Chaldean nation have handed on their discoveries about matters in which they have approved themselves of great skill and subtlety. And first, Berossus settled in the island of Cos as a citizen and opened a school there. Then Antipater took up the pursuit, and further, Athenodorus, who left a method of casting nativities, not from the time of birth but from that of conception.

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Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.6.2

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Amar Annus

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