Concept
Zodiac
Overview
sector of sky representing the twelve traditional zodiac signs
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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Saturn, therefore, since he is cold and inimical to heat, moving also in a superior orbit most remote from the luminaries, occupies the signs opposite to Cancer and Leo: these are Aquarius and Capricorn; and they are assigned to him in consideration of their cold and wintry nature; and because the configuration by opposition does not co-operate towards the production of good.[48]
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
Opens on Zodiac; names Zodiac.
A gigantic image of one protrudes from the front of the temple of _the Great Creator_, called in the language of the country, Jaggernaut, in Orissa. This is the Bull of the Zodiac,--the emblem of the sun when the equinox took place in the first degree of the sign of the Zodiac, Taurus. In consequence of the precession of the equinoxes, the sun at the vernal equinox left Taurus, and took place in Aries, which it has…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
Names Zodiac several times; states what Zodiac is.
The astrologers, that eight months are enemies to every birth, seven are friends and kind to it. The signs of the zodiac are then enemies, when they fall upon those stars which are lords of houses; whatever infant is then born will have a life short and unfortunate. Those signs of the zodiac which are malevolent and injurious to generation are those pairs of which the final is reckoned the eighth from the first, as…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
States what Zodiac is; names Zodiac twice.
Philosophers who discussed Zodiac
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Place in the tradition
Part of Anaximander.