05-12-2016, 01:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2016, 01:02 PM by VViews.
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Diane,
if you have published things on your blog that are relevant to this discussion, why not simply post links to them instead of writing dismissive and condescending things about others?
Of course the mansions of the moon system didn't originate in Europe, and no one here has claimed that it did.
However, your statement that the system "was not very widely known in the Latins' astronomical curriculum before the expulsions of 1492", is simply inaccurate.
I couldn't possibly list all of the pre-1492 manuscripts that feature them here, but the tables are present in many, many Ms's that deal with time reckoning and astronomy; even provincial hausbuchs and books of hours include them.
The Picatrix, which includes them, was translated into Spanish in the 11thC, and Albertus Magnus also mentions them (13th century) in his Speculum Astronomiae.
if you have published things on your blog that are relevant to this discussion, why not simply post links to them instead of writing dismissive and condescending things about others?
Of course the mansions of the moon system didn't originate in Europe, and no one here has claimed that it did.
However, your statement that the system "was not very widely known in the Latins' astronomical curriculum before the expulsions of 1492", is simply inaccurate.
I couldn't possibly list all of the pre-1492 manuscripts that feature them here, but the tables are present in many, many Ms's that deal with time reckoning and astronomy; even provincial hausbuchs and books of hours include them.
The Picatrix, which includes them, was translated into Spanish in the 11thC, and Albertus Magnus also mentions them (13th century) in his Speculum Astronomiae.