Medieval Track Translations

Abu Mashar: On Solar Revolutions Part II

(Medieveal Track Volume II)

Table of Contents

Preface....................................................................................................................................... vii

Treatise III. Concerning the Circumambulation of the Stars Taken in the Change-Overs.

Section 1 - Concerning the circumambulation and the distribution and the distributor
                  and the star that participates with the distributor ................................................... 1
Section 2 - Concerning the Significations of the Beneficand Malefic Bound Lords and
                  of the Stars Participating with them either through their Own Bodies or
                  their Own Rays ......................................................................................................... 5
Section 3 - Concerning the Signification of Kronos as Distributor, and Concerning the
                  Co-Distribution of the Stars with Kronos ................................................................ 19
Section 4 - Concerning the Signification of Zeus when It Exists as the Distributor and
                  of the Co- Significations of the Stars Co-Distributing with Zeus ............................. 21
Section 5 - Concerning the Distribution of Ares and the Stars Co-Distributing with Ares ......... 23
Section 6 - Concerning the Distribution of Aphrodite and of the Stars Co-Distributing
                   with Aphrodite ....................................................................................................... 24
Section 7 - Concerning the Distribution of Hermes and of the Stars Co-Distributing with
                  Hermes ................................................................................................................... 26
Section 8 - Concerning the Association of the Time-Lord and its Distribution and the
                  Star Distributing and the Horoskopos, according to the Signification [of this
                  Association] ............................................................................................................ 29
Section 9 - Concerning the So-Called Noupachrates and Their Lords, and the Circum-
                  ambulation of them, and their third Division, and concerning the Diagnosis of every
                   Distributor and its Signification, and the Signification of the Star Co-Distributing
                   with it either bodily or by Ray, as the Indians have Proposed .............................. 35
Section 10 - Concerning the Diagnosis of the Time-Lord from the Ninths according to the
                  Indian Opinion ........................................................................................................ 41

Treatise IV. Concerning the Firdar or Cycles.

Section 1 - Concerning the Firdar of the Sun ............................................................................ 42
Section 2 - Concerning the Firdar of Aphrodite ......................................................................... 47
Section 3 - Concerning the Firdar of Hermes ............................................................................ 49
Section 4 - Concerning the Firdar of the Moon .......................................................................... 51
Section 5 - Concerning the Firdar of Kronos .............................................................................. 53
Section 6 - Concerning the Firdar of Zeus ................................................................................. 54
Section 7 - Concerning the Firdar of Ares .................................................................................. 56

Treatise V. Concerning the Ingress of the Stars.

Section 1 ................................................................................................................................... 59
Section 2 - Concerning the Ingress of Kronos to itself and to the Remaining Stars .................. 63
Section 3 - Concerning the Ingress of Zeus to its Own Place and to the Places of the
                  Other Stars ............................................................................................................. 65
Section 4 - Concerning the Ingress of Ares upon Itself and upon the Remaining Stars ............ 67
Section 5 - Concerning the Signification of the Sun for each zoidion .......................................... 68
Section 6 - Concerning the Ingress of Aphrodite to Her Own Place and to the Places of
                  the Remaining Stars ................................................................................................ 69
Section 7 - Concerning the Signification of Hermes when It Should Make an Ingress to
                  Itself and to the Remaining Stars ............................................................................ 71
Section 8 - Concerning the Ingress of the Moon upon Itself and upon the Places of the
                  Remaining Stars ...................................................................................................... 72

Treatise IX.

Section 7 - Concerning the Indicators for the Days and Hours, and the Significations of
                  These ...................................................................................................................... 75

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