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{"title":"Citing the Saucers: Astronomy, UFOs and a persistence of vision","authors":"D. Armstrong","doi":"10.46472/cc.01216.0201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01216.0201","url":null,"abstract":"This paper consists of two parallel and interweaving investigations regarding the UFO phenomenon and its origins with respect to observational astronomy. First, as a young child, I was fascinated with astronomy and would spend many hours with my toy telescope, viewing blurred images of the night sky. I also held a deep belief in UFOs and was committed to seeing and recording a flying saucer for myself. This led me to fabricate my own UFO photographs and from these I developed a critical relationship with photography as a means of documentation and as a medium of illusionary projection. This paper is therefore partly personal and reflexive.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126791145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena","authors":"Nicholas Campion","doi":"10.46472/cc.01216.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01216.0103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124550061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appendix A Selection of Kepler’s Handwritten Charts","authors":"Friederike Boockmann","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"288 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115364822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part I, Section 4.2. Kepler’s Weather Calendar of 1618","authors":"J. Meeks","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122427132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part I. Kepler as Practising Astrologer Section 4. Weather Prediction Section 4.1. Introduction: Kepler and the Art of Weather Prognostication","authors":"John H. Meeks","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133955765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part III. Kepler on Astrological Theory and Doctrine Section 1. On Directions, 1601-1602","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0233","url":null,"abstract":"The treatise on directions is among the most difficult material in this collection of Kepler’s astrological writings, in terms of both translation and comprehension. Aside from discovering what Kepler is doing astrologically, many sentences in the treatise have to be read carefully to be fully understood. This is not astrology writing (or reading!) for the faint-hearted. We need to keep in mind that this treatise was never formally published; it exists only in this manuscript form. When Kepler uses the term ‘directions’ in this treatise, he does not always mean primary directions, as in the style of Ptolemy. Although he is comparing primary, or diurnal, motion to secondary, or zodiacal motion, Kepler’s system in general is more or less what modern astrologers would call secondary progressions, using a day for a year symbolism. But in his worked examples (in ‘On Directions’ these include his own chart and those of his children Heinrich and Susanna; and elsewhere the chart of Rudolf II1 ), he appears to be using, at different times, a variation on quotidian progressions, secondary progressions using solar arc in right ascension, and solar arc directions. He uses (mostly) right ascension for the Midheaven, oblique ascension for the Ascendant, and solar arc for both the Sun and the Moon. He does not direct any other planets. Greater detail of the way Kepler analysed directions can be found in his interpretation of Rudolf II’s chart. Kepler seems to take some standard techniques and improvise on them. He is not really ‘making things up’ but rather pushing against the boundary of standard techniques, just as he did in his work with aspects. It appears that Kepler’s techniques were 1) modifications of Ptolemaic ones, 2) modifications of Regiomontanus and 3) modifications of his mentor Tycho’s system, which appears to be similar to the modern idea of secondary progressions, though they are called directions. We can see this from the table at the end of Kepler’s interpretations of Rudolf II’s chart (see Part I.2.1, p. 100 in this volume). If we are to take anything away from this treatise, it is that Kepler privileges the motion of the Sun in developing a system for directions. But neither does he neglect the importance of the Moon, the Ascendant and the Midheaven. It is also striking how much emphasis he places on the relationship between the day, the month and the year, and how the present and the past intertwine. As Kepler eloquently puts it, ‘life is a multiplication of the first breath’. For the notes to this section, I am indebted to the astrological expertise of Joseph Crane, Nadine Harris, Bernadette Brady and Geoffrey Cornelius, who helped me immensely. For translation and palaeographic assistance, I am also indebted to Charles Burnett.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114241555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part I, Section 4.3. Excerpts from Kepler’s Weather Calendar of 1619","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0229","url":null,"abstract":"The following passages selected from the 1619 Calendar are relevant to Kepler’s predictions for 1618. In view of the momentous nature of the outbreak of war, Kepler does not review the success or failure of his weather predictions. His reflections on the war are characteristic of his conviction that the stars do not determine, but rather influence human affairs, and that despite their strongly stimulating nature, they nevertheless leave full scope for the exercise of freedom. The appearance of three comets in the autumn of 1618 and the destruction of the city of Plurs in Switzerland receives a detailed commentary, most of which is included here.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116464317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part I, Section 2.3. Kepler’s Letter to an Official on Rudolf II and Astrology, 1611","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0217","url":null,"abstract":"Kepler wrote the following letter on Easter Sunday, 3 April 1611, to an unnamed court official. It is of interest because it contains more of Kepler’s views of astrology in addition to his views of how Rudolf thought about astrology. He cautions the official about the undue influence which astrological advice is liable to exert upon the fragile psyche of the Emperor.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133872024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part I. Kepler as Practising Astrologer Section 2. Kepler’s Clients Subsection 1. Kepler’s Methods of Astrological Interpretation for Rudolf II, 1602","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0213","url":null,"abstract":"After Tycho Brahe’s death in 1601, Kepler was appointed Imperial Mathematician (included in the job description: Court Astrologer) for the Emperor Rudolf II. It is clear that Kepler took his responsibilities as astrologer to the Emperor seriously. Interpretations of Rudolf’s natal chart are extant as well as delineations of his solar returns, transits and directions; Kepler performed these according to both ‘traditional’ methods and to his own preferred ones. In addition, the psychological implications of the interpretations on the Emperor also concerned Kepler, as is evident in a letter he wrote to an unnamed official in 1611. The next three sections cover, first, Kepler’s delineation of Rudolf’s natal chart, directions and solar returns by his preferred methods (these contain some theory as well); second, his interpretations by traditional methods; and finally his letter to the official. Note that, for reasons of clarity, we first translate the interpretation by Kepler’s preferred methods, though these follow the traditional methods in the text.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129188658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part II. Kepler on the New Star: De stella nova, Chapters 7-9 Astrology on Trial: Kepler, Pico and the Preservation of the Aspects","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131682347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}