Ken Perlow doth schreibble :
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> It was the discovery of a stochastic universe, which not only accepted
> but mathematically defined the concept of randomness--anathema to
> Platonism.
" Technai share a special characteristic, which Ptolemy
pointed to when he described astrology as a stochastic
techne. "
~ from :
/The Rehabilitation of Wretched Subjects/
by Liba Taub
in:
*Early Science and Medicine*,
Vol. 2, No. 1 (1997), pages 74-87.
*Astrology as a Stochastic Art*
by Dorian Greenbaum
Warburg Institute
Abstract
The dictionary definition of 'stochastic' relates
it to conjecture, a kind of informed guessing.
Modern connotation of 'stochastic' finds it linked
to statistics, probability and random values. But
the roots of this word show interesting connections
to both the art of aiming, and to divination: a
stochastes is a diviner.
The verb from which 'stochastic' comes, stochazomai,
means to aim or shoot at, and so implies the art
of archery. Stochastic arts in the ancient world
included both medicine and rhetoric.
Can we classify astrology as a stochastic art?
This paper will explore astrology as an art of
aiming and conjecture, and look at evidence of
stochastic ways of thinking by ancient astrologers.
http://tinyurl.com/25s4a4n
[ forthcoming :'Arrows, Aiming and Divination:
Astrology as a Stochastic Art', in :
*Divination – Perspectives for a New Millennium*,
ed. Patrick Curry, London (Ashgate) ]
" The Tropical Points of the Zodiacal Year
and the Paranatellonta in Manilius' *Astronomica* "
by Wolfgang Hübner
Abstract
The three different values given by Manilius for
the equinoxes and solstices (8°, 10° and 1°, i.e.
0°) are critical for the placement of the extra-
zodiacal constellations on the ecliptic in Book 5:
The Arrow at Libra 8° (the autumnal equinox) signifies
the 'stochastic art' of both archers and astrologers.
( .PDF ) http://tinyurl.com/22vk5yf
See also :
*The Astrological Origin of Islamic Geomancy*
by Wim van Binsbergen ( .PDF )
http://tinyurl.com/36kpvf8
*Rhetoric, Science, & Magic*
*in Seventeenth-Century England*
by Ryan J. Stark, 2009.
( Preview @GoogleBooks )
http://tinyurl.com/39bv3mt
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman
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