Alfonso X's Lapidario: Stones, Stars and Colours
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It's a beautiful manuscript.

I've looked at it quite a bit as well, about half a year ago, but can't come up with anything concrete either.

One of the things I noticed is that it's a more southern Greco-Roman style of imagery (in terms of the zodiacs). For example, Cancer is a crab (not a crayfish), Virgo has wings, the scorpion is a real scorpion (not the scorpion lizard), Sagittarius is a centaur, etc.  And it leans more toward astronomy (as it was in medieval times) rather than astrology, in the sense of illustrating a wide range of constellations (including Draco, Ursa major and minor, Corona, et al). It's not a mathematical work of astronomy (it's a fairly primitive interpretation), but it's not specifically focused on astrology.
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RE: Alfonso X's Lapidario: Stones, Stars and Colours - by -JKP- - 12-10-2016, 08:15 PM

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