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The key question is surely whether the statistical approach to astrology is a worthwhile pursuit or is it doomed from the outset? Will the empirical approach ever prove astrology or any particular technique of astrology? Or is the whole approach of astrological research ,excluding the astrologer at...

What you're suggesting is very much along the lines that I'm working on. I don't know if there is already software available to do that kind of analysis, but it probably wouldn't run under Linux anyway, so I'm in the process of writing my own. I'm glad to hear of your work, tell me more if you like...

I think it's important to distinguish between two different classes of statistical study; there are studies that have some potential to show the essential validity of the subject and, very likely, those studies don't have any value to the practice of astrology - their potential value is in the effe...

Does Pingree offer an opinion on when this material may date from? Judging by the source you quote is he linking this to the Islamic era of Masha'allah ibn Athari (c.740-d.815 AD) or is he referring back to a much older tradition of Persian astrology Masha'allah may have been drawing upon which was...

The nativity of Gayomart

The chart in question here can also be found in an article by David Pingree, entitled "Masha'allah: Some Sasanian and Syriac Sources." The article is found in Essays on Islamic Philosophy and Science, ed. G.F. Hourani, Albany, 1975, pp. 5-14. This chart of exaltations, which I had been thi...

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