Signs of the zodiac in a Christian perspective: Honorius Augustodunensis' Imago Mundi

Jul 28, 2012

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Compotus, Texts on Science and Astronomy: circular diagram showing the movements of various planets and the sun and moon and the stars of the zodiac, Koln, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 188, f. 19v

For the medieval man, the horoscope could not have an easy life within a Christian cosmology. However, the twelfth-century scholar Honorius Augustodun…

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