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Mathematical recreations and essays (1914)

Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925 · London, Macmillan · leaf 403

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is given in Raimas edition of Ptolemys works,t De Judiciis Astrorum, ed. Liechtenstein, Basle, 1571.X Astronomicorum, eight books, Venice, 1499.§ Raphael, pp. 91—1U9. 382 ASTROLOGY [CH. XVII were described as the first house, the second house, and so on.The dividing lines were termed cusps: the… … was called the cusp of the twelfth house. Each house had alsoa name of its own—thus the first house was called the ascendanthouse, the eighth house was called the house of death, and soon—but as these names are immaterial for my purpose I shallnot define them. Next, the positions which the various…

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