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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 172

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to adspectu vel ex opposito, seu alter planeta maleficus seu uterque, laesiones et morbi natis accident; maxime si alterum luminare vel ambo sint in cardinibus iuncta maleficis, aut sint eis opposita. Tunc enim, sive post lumen ascendit planeta maleficus sive praecedit in cardine, adferre potest talem morbum, qualem horizon, signa, naturae maleficorum planetarum et adspicientium eos minantur. Nam gradus cuiuslibet signi infortunatus in horizonte minabitur membro corporis cui praeest et quali laesione aut morbo aut an utroque adfici membrum illud posit indicabit, causas vero et species laesionum seu morborum planetae indicabunt. Saturnus enim praecipue praeest auri dextrae, vesicae, spleni, pituitae et ossibus; Iupiter tactui, pulmoni, arteriis, et semini; Mars auri sinistrae, renibus, venis, membris virilibus; Sol oculis, cerebro, cordi nervis et dextrae parti universae;