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As the source of this quotation, de Roover cites Heinrich von Langenstein, Tractatus bipartitus de contractibus emptionis et venditionis, Part I, cap. 12, published in Johannes Gerson, Opera omina, IV Cologne, 1484, fol.

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Though not properly astrological, but rather only that part of the Mesopo - tamian science of divination which is concerned with super-terrestrial phenomena, celestial omina are fre - quently combined with strictly astrological material in post-Babylonian sources; in the West they are often included under the rubric, “natural astrology.”

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Pariśiṣṭas of the Atharvaveda (tenth or eleventh cen - tury?); in works of the thirteenth century and later, en - titled tājika, a massive infusion of the Arabic versions of celestial omina, as transmitted through Persian

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Babylonian celestial omina, as we have seen, were designed to provide predictions relating to all of society or to its representatives, the court; these omina, as modified by Greek diviners, continued in use in the Hellenistic period and after.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

A number of Sanskrit collections of omina, or saṃhitās, are preserved, of which the most notable are the Bṛhatsaṃhitā of Varāhamihira (ca. 550), the Jaina

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

B.C. is our earliest evidence for the spread of Mesopo - tamian celestial omina (in this case lunar) to Egypt

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

These omina, and espe - cially those from Sin, are often referred to in the reports of the diviners sent to the Assyrian kings in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., but seem to have lost their popularity by the late Persian period, when new attempts were made to discern the meaning of the celestial signs revealed to mankind by the divinities.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Iran, before the rise of the Sassanids, was evidently open to the influence of some Mesopotamian theories of celestial and other omina.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

The Arabic texts, in celestial omina as in the various categories of astrology proper, are extremely difficult to analyze as they represent admixtures of this older Near Eastern element with the derivative traditions of Greece and India.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

First, he paid great attention to public opinion and induced large masses of the population to write petitions to the court asking the Han ruler to abdicate; he even fabricated "heavenly omina" in his own favour and against the Han dynasty in order to get wide support even from intellectuals.

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