Astronomicon by Marcus Manilius
Both the author and the date of this five-volume poem, the first Western document to link the houses of the zodiac with the course of human affairs, are uncertain. The author's name may be Marcus Manilius, or Manlius, or Mallius, and the latest datable event mentioned in the books themselves is the disastrous defeat of Varus' Roman legions by the German tribes in 9 CE. The writing shows knowledge of the work of Lucretius, but the work is not referred to by any subsequent writer, suggesting that it was never widely disseminated. A manuscript was rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1416 or 1417, and editions were produced by Scaliger and Bentley, but this immensely erudite edition of 1903–1930 by the scholar and poet A. E. Housman (1859–1936) is regarded as authoritative. Volume 3 describes the working out of horoscopes.Marcus Manilius was a Latin poet and astrologer of Berber ancestry who lived about the year 10 (during the last years of Emperor Augustus' reign) and wrote Les Astronomiques (Astronomica in Latin), a five-volume didactic poem on ancient astronomy and astrology, based on the Phénomènes of the Greek poet Aratos. He is Berbérie's first writer in the Latine language. Astronomiques has become a classic in the study of the science of the stars among the ancients. Alexandre Guy Pingré, a French priest, astronomer, and naval géographer, was born in Paris on September 4, 1711, and died on May 1, 1796. In 1961, the International Astronomical Union gave the name Pingré to a lunar crater.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108170635 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108170633 |
| Title | Astronomicon |
| Author | Marcus Manilius |
| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2011-05-19 |
| Number of pages | 108 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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