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91:, which provide a number of astrological techniques dedicated to horary and electional astrology, including a section on discovering the intention of the questioner. This manuscript was first analysed in detail by Nicholas Whyte in 1991, in which Whyte suggested that a horoscope in this manuscript was that of 73: 330: 65:
at Hereford in 1178. It is probable that he and the Roger Infans attested in charters at Hereford (1186 - 1198), are one and the same.
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Roger's nationality, year of birth, and education are unknown. The earliest record dates to a commission in 1176 by
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for the calculation of ecclesiastical dates. In this treatise Roger criticizes the calculations of
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Roger's connection with Hereford are established by calculations in his tables setting the
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Roger of Hereford's Liber de Astronomice iudicandi: A twelfth-century astrologer's manual
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is dedicated to Roger. Roger may be credited for a new method of calculating horoscopes.
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as used in the standard text of the time, and draws on Hebrew and Arabic learning.
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Roger's importance rests largely as a transmitter of the scholarship of
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Roger of Hereford's Judicial Astrology: England's first astrology book?
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Roger of Hereford's Judicial Astrology: England's First Astrology Book?
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A subsequent more detailed analysis of all 22 extant manuscripts of
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was undertaken as a PhD thesis by Chris Mitchell at the
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Hereford
Gilbert Foliot
Bishop of Hereford
Bishop of London
computus
Gerland
meridian
Raimond de Marseille
Juan de Sevilla
Hermann of Carinthia
Eleanor of Aquitaine
University of Leicester
Alfred of Shareshill
Adelard of Bath
Robert Grosseteste




Hereford, Roger of (fl. 1176–1198)

Roger of Hereford's Judicial Astrology: England's First Astrology Book?
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10.25392/leicester.data.11793636
"Hereford, Roger of (fl. 1176–1198)"
Oxford University Press
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/23955
UK public library membership
https://archive.org/details/herefordiapoem00jame/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22roger+of+hereford%22

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