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A Comparative Study of the Sassanian Stamp Seal Designs with Drawings in Abd al-Rahman Sufi’s Sovar al-Kavakeb [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2023
Stamp seals are incredibly significant as a category of archeological finds because of their various motifs andfunctions, and inquiry into such glyptic evidence will help reconstruct different aspects of human life.
Sattar Khaledian, Hasan Arab
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ASTROLOGI SEBAGAI ILMU BANTU EPIGRAFI: SEBUAH PEMIKIRAN

Berkala Arkeologi, 2014
Of the thousands of inscriptions, both stones and metals, there is only small number known as dated. Other parts are damaged, worn, or missing for various reasons.
Djulianto Susantio
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The validity of astrological predictions on marriage and divorce: a longitudinal analysis of Swedish register data

Genus, 2020
This paper examines astrology, a concept that is considered unscientific by broad segments of the population in the western world. Despite this, astrology remains for some an important source for advice regarding choices in a range of different matters ...
Jonas Helgertz, Kirk Scott
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Astrology [PDF]

Experientia, 1988
As a divinatory practice, astrology is without equal in both its colorful history and modern day popularity. Astrology has grown, over thousands of years, into a huge and ornate superstructure that lacks a central design. Although astrology has been dimly veiled by its occult mystique for centuries, the light of modern day inquiry has shown its ...
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Forståelsen af begreberne skæbne og fri vilje i moderne vestlig astrologi

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1999
"Destiny, Free Will and Astrology". The relation between destiny and free will has, since Augustine, been crucial in the theological and philosophical approach to astrology and has led to the accusation that astrology represents pure fatalism.
Iben Egekvist Krogsdal
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Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages edited by David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, and Charles Burnett

Aestimatio, 2023
: This exciting collection of articles was a result of a 2015 conference by the same name, “Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages”, sponsored by the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL).
Elizabeth Hamm
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What Makes Some People Think Astrology Is Scientific? [PDF]

, 2010
Citizens in both North America and Europe are apt to read horoscope columns in newspapers and magazines. While some people read these casually and purely for entertainment, some believe that astrology has scientific status and can provide real insight ...
Allum, Nick
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No evidence for an early seventeenth-century Indian sighting of Keplers supernova (SN1604) [PDF]

, 2012
In a recent paper Sule et al. (Astronomical Notes, vol. 332 (2011), 655) argued that an early 17th-century Indian mural of the constellation Sagittarius with a dragon-headed tail indicated that the bright supernova of 1604 was also sighted by Indian ...
van Gent, Robert H.
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Augustine on fate and astrology revisited [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
In De civitate Dei V,1-11 revaluating Stoic fate, Augustine develops a new understanding of fate which is changed from Stoic rational order to a voluntary order attributed to the will of God and eternally spoken by God.
Andoková Marcela
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Anatomy of a Dispute:Leonardo, Pacioli, and Scientific Entertainment in Renaissance Milan. [PDF]

, 2004
none1noHistorians have recently paid increasing attention to the role of the disputation in Italian universities and humanist circles. By contrast, the role of disputations as forms of entertainment at fifteenth-century Italian courts has been somewhat ...
Azzolini, Monica
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