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This book is an English translation of Book 25 of the Astrologia Gallica, in which Morin explains how to make Mundane Predictions for a particular place by using Aries Ingresses and Lunations (along with their quarters) as the main tools. He discusses the common use of Solar and Lunar Eclipses for that purpose and concludes that they are of only minor importance and do not have the long-lasting effects usually attributed to them. He also discusses the possibility of drawing some conclusions from the Conjunctions of the outer Planets and even from Comets. Morin was a physician who became the most renowned of all French astrologers. He was appointed Royal Mathematician to King Louis XIII and was summoned to be present at the birth of the royal heir, the future King Louis XIV. The present volume contains Morin s example charts of several Ingresses and one Eclipse as seen at Paris, France, in 1646, with a detailed explanation of his method of interpreting them. An added feature of this book is Jean Hieroz s statement of Offusius s rules for Planetary strength and Hieroz s own account of his efforts to use Morin s methods to predict the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Jean Hieroz (b.1889) was a prominent French astrologer in the 1930s and 1940s. He had studied under Henri Selva, the French revival astrologer who had rescued J-B Morin s Astrologia Gallica from obscurity and published the first translation of Book 21 of that work. James Herschel Holden is Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers and has previously translated Books 13-17, 19, 22, 23, and 24 of the Astrologia Gallica. ... Read more

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Most frustrating to read such an amateurish translation
I am no Latin scholar, nor do I think that I should be one to be able to read a "translation" from a Latin text; but I am somewhat familiar with this subject matter.As in any competent translation, the primary purpose should be, above all, to convey meaning and expression of ideas from the original text; and the selection and arrangement of words should be only a means to that end.Yet, this simple fact seems to have been lost on Mr. Holden, who seems to have solely focused on verbatim translation of each individual word and on maintaining their original order and arrangement, perhaps as a way to preserve the 'integrity' of the original text.But, sadly, this is a folly rather than a virtue.

The result is a text that is incomprehensible as well as utterly confusing and contradictory.Sentences are wordy, convoluted, meaninglessly too long (sometimes as long as a whole paragraph, and sometimes not even complete), redundant, and with awkward punctuations.I had to keep reading the same passages over and over again in an attempt to make some sense out of the nonsense passing for "translation."Perhaps, Dr. Morin was drunk when he was writing the original text and, thus, did not make any sense.Or perhaps, Mr. Holden simply does not have good enough of anunderstanding of the subject matter to realize that his translation has lost too much of the cohesion and meaning in the process, and that his work has utterly failed to express Dr. Morin's ideas and theories.How else could Mr. Holden not realize this failure?For the next edition of this book, I hope that Mr. Holden would kindly include plain English notes to tell us what he really was trying to translate.I for one cannot make heads or tails out of most of this "translation."

I do realize that translating a technical text is no easy task for I have some experience with doing just that, but what is the point of going through that process only to produce a text which seems to have little relevance to the ideas and meanings of the original text?

I will keep looking for a plain English translation of this work by somebody else! ... Read more

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This book is an English translation of Book 17 of the Astrologia Gallica. In the first Section, Morin explains the Cabala of the Twelve Houses and their natural foundation. The Second Section is devoted to different methods of House Division. Several horoscopes are shown. The Third Section discusses the formal reasons for the natures of the Houses and their mathematical basis. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more

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This Book Is In French. ... Read more