{"title":"Translations of Kepler’s Astrological Writings Part I. Kepler as Practising Astrologer Section 3. Historical Charts Subsection 1. The Nativities of Mohammed and Martin Luther, 1604","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0221","url":null,"abstract":"This excerpt is taken from a longer discourse on a commentary by Johann Paul Sutorius (ca. 1562-1599), a pastor, theologian and astrologer, on the nativity of Mohammed, among other things. Kepler begins with a discussion of the birthchart for Mohammed proposed by Sutorius. Helisaeus Röslin, the doctor who had first interpreted Kepler’s own chart, wrote a commentary on Sutorius’s proposed chart, in which he corrected Sutorius’s ‘astronomical errors’ and correctly recalculated the chart for the date and time given by Sutorius: 23 April 594 at 10 a.m. Kepler acknowledges that Roslin’s calculations are correct, but is skeptical of the date itself (one reason being that it would make Mohammed far too young to have done what he did by 622, when he made the flight from Mecca – the Hejira – with his followers; he also wonders where Sutorius got the date in the first place). Kepler mentions other proposed dates for Mohammed: 569 A.D. (from Mercator); 21 September 571 (from a Chronicle of the Koran, which Kepler accepts later in the excerpt); and 23 April 596 (from ‘others’, not specified).2 Though Kepler gives the positions of his own proposed chart for Mohammed in this excerpt, a drawing of it has not survived. Extant is a square form of the chart for the date Sutorius proposed. After discussing Roslin’s and Sutorius’s attempts, Kepler moves on to his own thoughts about Mohammed’s nativity.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"121 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":"114522589","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 3.2. Kepler’s Nativity of Augustus","authors":"Cornelia Linde","doi":"10.46472/cc.01213.0221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01213.0221","url":null,"abstract":"This section translates two reports, with calculations, that Kepler wrote to Emperor Rudolf II on the topic of the Emperor Augustus’s nativity. The reports are undated, but the second wishes the Emperor a Happy New Year. This was not the only time that Kepler attempted to recreate the birthchart of Augustus. In a series of 1599 letters to Herwart von Hohenburg, Kepler discusses what the nativity of Augustus might be, basing his research on ancient authors. In those letters, he supposes that sub Capricorno’ means a Capricorn Ascendant. In the following analysis, however, he advocates a Capricorn Moon.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"28 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":"114548507","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, Section 4. Kepler on Aspects, 1602","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"33 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":"130098017","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, Section 3. David Fabricius and Kepler on Fabricius’s Directions, 1603-1604","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0237","url":null,"abstract":"We have seen Kepler’s theories about directions, including examples, in Part III.1. In Part III.2, Kepler also discussed the theory of directions (see pp. 281-283). Now we present a short correspondence between Kepler and David Fabricius on the topic of Fabricius’s directions, and Kepler’s interpretation of them.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"11 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":"121707130","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 2.4. Excerpts from Kepler’s Correspondence and Interpretation of Wallenstein’s Nativity, 1624-1625","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0219","url":null,"abstract":"Kepler wrote a great amount of material on Wallenstein’s astrology. Some has been translated into English, and the (German and Latin) interpretations of 1608 and 1625 are now reproduced in their entirety in GW 21, 2.2, pp. 445-470, with calculations on pp. 471-475. In this section we present some of the letters leading up to the 1625 interpretation and excerpts from the interpretation itself. These letters and partial translation of Kepler’s 1625 re-evaluation of Wallenstein’s astrology in this section complement Kepler’s earlier interpretation of 1608, which has been translated into English by Kenneth Negus.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"31 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":"121942944","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 1.3. Kepler’s Delineations of his Family’s Astrology","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0209","url":null,"abstract":"Here we find Kepler’s comparisons of his, his wife’s, his son’s and his step-daughter’s birthcharts. It consists of two tables: the first lists the planetary and angle positions of each of the four family members, classified into cardinal, fixed and mutable signs; it is followed by a commentary. The second table compares similar aspects in the charts under discussion, also with commentary. Finally, Kepler speculates on a conception chart, almost certainly for his son Heinrich, again with commentary. The text is particularly interesting because it gives insight into the way that Kepler went about interpreting a chart, and into the way he compares charts (the modern astrological term for this is ‘synastry’). Unfortunately, since it was clearly written only for Kepler’s use, it is quite terse and difficult to decipher. However, there are parallels between this text and a series of letters Kepler wrote to Michael Mastlin, in which Kepler compares his own and his son Heinrich’s charts, as well as Mastlin’s and his son August’s charts (see Part I.1.4 in this volume). No date of composition is given; it may have been written around the time of Heinrich’s birth in early 1598 or, alternatively, after the death of Barbara Kepler in 1611 (see p. 61, ‘Son’s mother is going to die’). Taken from Gesammelte Werke 21, 2.2, pp. 41-45. Note: because of the table format, I have left the astrological glyphs as they appear, without writing them out. In the commentaries to the tables, I have written out the names, with the glyph used shown in square brackets. [GW 21,2.2, p. 41].","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"205 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":"124618183","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 2.2. Kepler’s Astrological Interpretation of Rudolf II by Traditional Methods, 1602","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0215","url":null,"abstract":"This section actually precedes the material in the previous section, but has been put here because the techniques discussed are easier to understand when the other material has been introduced first. Kepler provides what he describes as the ‘common teaching of the more renowned astrologers’, i.e. standard astrological techniques, for interpreting Rudolf’s astrology in 1602 and 1603. Though he later adds his own, personal interpretation using techniques he considered valid (see Part I.2.1 above), Kepler did send Rudolf this delineation based on standard techniques (perhaps to cover all the bases?). At the end of this section I have added some of the preliminary notes Kepler made for himself about Rudolf’s astrology, including calculations, and the draft interpretation of the solar returns which was later incorporated into the letter to Rudolf.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"20 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":"125473590","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 1.2. David Fabricius and Kepler on Kepler’s Personal Astrology, 1602","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0207","url":null,"abstract":"Kepler had a large and varied correspondence. Among his astrological correspondents was David Fabricius (9 March 1564 – 7 May 1617), a Lutheran pastor in northwest Germany who was an accomplished astrologer and astronomer (known for discovering the first variable star, and a treatise written, with his son, on sunspots). Kepler’s correspondence on astrology with Fabricius is interesting for a number of reasons. First, he discusses the both the philosophical and the physical components of astrology. Fabricius is clearly more wedded to a traditional astrology, one which Kepler is seeking to modify. Thus he acts as a foil for Kepler. Secondly, Fabricius and Kepler discuss personal horoscopy, in which Fabricius interprets Kepler’s chart and Kepler, in turn, gives Fabricius astrological advice. So we see both theory and practice in this correspondence. As an added bonus, Kepler’s list of his achievements (which he sent to Fabricius as part of the chart interpretation) allow us to date precisely certain events in Kepler’s life, such as his meeting with Tycho Brahe, his promotions and how he was affected by the counter-reformation (e.g., when all Protestants were expelled from Graz, Kepler among them). It may be partially because of the expulsion that Kepler developed his friendship with Tycho, which had momentous implications for the development of astronomy. In this volume, the correspondence with Fabricius is divided into three sections: one dealing with Kepler’s personal horoscopy (I.1.2), one with Fabricius’s personal horoscopy (III.3) and one with astrological theory (III.2). What follows here is Fabricius’ and Kepler’s discussion of Kepler’s life events as reflected in his birthchart.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"16 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":"124047028","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, Section 2. David Fabricius and Kepler on Astrological Theory and Doctrine, 1602","authors":"","doi":"10.46472/cc.01214.0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46472/cc.01214.0235","url":null,"abstract":"This section contains portions of letters between Kepler and Fabricius which concern astrological theory. As not all parts of the letters are relevant to this topic, we excerpt only those parts which pertain to it, following Frisch’s lead in the Opera Omnia. This correspondence took place in the latter part of 1602.","PeriodicalId":152044,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Cosmos","volume":"124 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":"133526236","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}