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The main collection links to English-language texts directly related to astrology (from all eras).

Vettius Valens - Anthologies; translated by Mark Riley, reformated, illustrated, annotated and hyperlinked by Janegca - free to view or download Book of Instructions in the Elements of the Art of Astrology Guido Bonatti, Anima Astrologiae; The Astrologer's Guide - free to view or download Claude Dariot: Briefe and Most Easie Introduction to the Stars - free to view or download Johannes Kepler: Harmonies of the World - free to view or download

William Lilly's 'Christian Astrology' vols I & II, retyped and annotated by Deborah Houlding - free to view or download Luke Broughton - Elements of Astrology C. C. Zain - Horary Astrology - free to view or download Nicholas De Vore: Encyclopedia of Astrology - free to view or download Rochberg: Babylonian Horoscopes - free to view on Google Books

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Adams, Evangeline	Astrology: Your PLace Among the Stars	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Abu Mashar	Libri Mysteriorum; astrological metaphors (extract)	9th c.	Cielo e Terra	-
Al Biruni	Elements of Astrology	11th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Anonymous	Mul Apin Tablets	7th c. BC	Lexiline	Amazon
Aratus	Phenomena and Diosemeia	4th c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Blagrave, Joseph	Astrological Practice of Physick	17th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Blagrave, Joseph	Introduction to Astrology	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Bonatti, Guido	Anima Astrologiae; The Astrologer's Guide	13th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Bonatti, Guido	Liber Astronomiae extract - 4th House Elections, chaps. 1-13	13th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Broughton, Luke	Elements of Astrology	19th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Cardan, Jerome	Commentaries on the Seven Segments of Cardan	16th c.	vlivina	-
Cardan, Jerome	Cardano's First Segment	16th c.	skyscript	-
Coley, Henry	Ptolemy's Centiloquium	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Coley, Henry	Clavis Astrologiae Elimata (searchable modern type)	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Coley, Henry	Clavis Astrologiae Elimata (digital facsimile)	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas	Astrological Judgement of Diseases (digital facsimile)	17th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas	Astrological Judgement of Diseases (unformatted modern text)	17th c.	EEBO	Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas	The English physitian & Complete Herbal	17th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Culpeper, Nicholas	An astrologo-physical discourse of the Human Virtues in the Body of Man	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Culpeper, Nicholas	Directory for Midwives	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Culpeper, Nicholas	Opus Astrologicum	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Cumont, F.	Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Dariot, Claude	Briefe and Most Easie Introduction to the Stars	16th c.	Archive.org	-
De Vore, Nicholas	Encyclopedia of Astrology	20th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Dorotheus	Carmen Astrologicum Books I-V, Pingree translation	1st c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Dorotheus	Carmen Astrologicum Book I - retyped	1st c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Dorotheus	Carmen Astrologicum Book II - retyped	1st c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Dorotheus	Carmen Astrologicum Book III - retyped	1st c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Ebertin, R.	Combination of Stellar Influences	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Eland, William	A Tutor to Astrology	17th c.	Google Books	Amazon
Eutocius	Greek horoscope - L497 (commented chart extract from GH)	5th c.	Skyscript	-
Ezra, Abraham ibn	120 Aphorisms for Astrologers	12th c.	Skyscript	-
Firmicus	Matheseos Libri VIII (translated by Jean Rhys Bram)	4th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Forman, Simon	Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes	17th c.	cam.ac.uk	Amazon
Forman, Simon	Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes (extended)	17th c.	cam.ac.uk	Amazon
Gadbury, John	The Doctrine of Nativities & Horary Questions	17th c.	Google	-
Gadbury, John	Nauticum Astrologicum	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Gadbury, John	The Nativity of Lewis the Fourteenth, King of France	17th c.	TCP	Amazon
Gadbury, John	Of Thefts, Fugitives & Strays &c.	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Galileo	Notes on his own Horoscope \| Nativity of Giovanni Sagredo	16th c.	Skyscript	-
Gerarde, John	Herbal and General History of Plants	16th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Griffin, Anthony	An Astrological Judgement Touching Theft (facsimilie of original)	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Hyginus	Astronomica Bk 2, from The Myths of Hyginus (translated and edited by Mary Grant)	1st c.	ToposText	Amazon
Kepler, Johannes	Harmonies of the World	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Lilly, William	Christian Astrology, vols I & II	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Lilly, William	Christian Astrology, vols: I, II & III (facsimile of original)	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Lilly, William	History of His Life and Times together with his Life & Death of King Charles I	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Lilly, William	Christian Astrology & Lilly: various extracts & downloads	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Lilly, William	Collection of Ancient & Modern Prophecies	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Lilly, William	England's Prophetical Merlin	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Lilly, William	Starry Messenger	17th c.	Archive.org	-
Lilly, William	Supernatural Sights and Apparitions	17th c.	Astrology Answers	-
Lilly, William	Extensive list of original works	17th c.	Online Books	-
Manilius	Astronomica (Goold translation, 1977)	1st c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Manilius	The Sphere of Manilius (Sherburne's translation of book I, 1674)	1st c.	Google Books	-
Manilius	Astronomica (Creech translation, 1697)	1st c.	EEBO	-
Masha'allah	What is reception? (Extract - chap. 1 - from 'On Reception')	8th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Michelsen, N.	The American Book of Tables	1st c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Middleton, John	Practical Astrology	17th c.	Google Books	Amazon
Morin, Jean Baptiste	Cabal of the 12 Houses Astrological	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Morin, Jean Baptiste	Astrologia Gallica Book 21 - Synthesis	17th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Napier, Richard	Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes	17th c.	cam.ac.uk	Amazon
Napier, Richard	Simon Forman & Richard Napier - casenotes (extended)	17th c.	cam.ac.uk	Amazon
Neugebauer & Van Hoesen	Greek Horoscopes	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Neve, Jeffery	Judicium Astrologicum: 207 horaries (MS Ashmole 209)	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Palchus	Ancient horary: Safety of a Ship at Sea	5th c.	Skyscript	-
Parker, Derek	A History of Astrology \| online text	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Partridge, John	Mikropanastron (Vade Mecum)	17th c.	Google	-
Partridge, John	Opus Reformatum or Treatise of Astrology	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Placidus	Primum Mobile - Cooper translation \| [Commented chart extract]	17th c.	Google Books	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Almagest - Catesby Taliaferro translation	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Ptolemy's catalogue of stars: a revision of the Almagest (C.H.F. Peters)	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Almagest - Toomer translation	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Tetrabiblos - Robbins translation (text)	2nd c.	LacusCurtius	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Tetrabiblos - Robbins translation (digital book)	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Tetrabiblos - Ashmand translation (text)	2nd c.	Sacred Texts	Amazon
Ptolemy, Claudius	Tetrabiblos - Ashmand translation (digital book)	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Ptolemy, (Pseudo)	Centiloquium	2nd c.	Skyscript	-
Ramesey, William	Astrology Restored, Bk IV (Mundane Astrology)	17th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Ramesey, William	Astrology Restored, Bk IV (retyped)	17th c.	Skyscript	Amazon
Ramesey, William	Astrology Restored, full text as HTML	17th c.	EEBO	Amazon
Raphael	Manual of Astrology	19th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Reiner, Erica	Astral Magic in Babylonia	21st c.	Google	Amazon
Robson, Vivian	Astrology & Sex (1963)	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Robson, Vivian	Electional Astrology (1937)	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Robson, Vivian	The Fixed Stars & Constellations in Astrology (1923)	20th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Rochberg, Francesca	Babylonian Horoscopes	21st c.	Google	Amazon
Sahl / Zael	De Electionibus (Of Elections) - translated by C. M. Crofts (1985)	9th c.	Glasgow Uni.	Amazon
Saunders, Richard	Astrological Judgement & Practice of Physick	17th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Schoener, Johannes	Schoener's table of dignity scores (extract from Opusculum Astrologicum, II.39)	17th c.	Skyscript	-
Sibly, Ebenezer	Key to Physic and the Occult Sciences	18th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Sibly, Ebenezer	Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology	18th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Sibly, Ebenezer	Sibly's Historical Horoscopes: 35 Famous nativities extracted from Celestial Science of Astrology	18th c.	Skyscript	-
Thompson, R. Campbell	Reports of the Magicians & Astrologers of Nineveh & Babylon	20th c.	Adelaide.edu	Amazon
Thrasher, William	Jubar Astrologicum	17th c.	Google Books	Amazon
Valens, Vettius	Anthologies (Bks 1-9) Mark Riley translation (raw)	2nd c.	csus.edu	Amazon
Valens, Vettius	Anthologies (Riley trans: reformatted, hyperlinked, with charts by Janegca)	2nd c.	Janegca	Amazon
Zadkiel	Grammar of Astrology	19th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Zadkiel	Tables for calculating nativities	19th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Zain, C. C.	Doctrine of Horary Astrology	19th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Zoroaster	The Chaldæan Oracles	ancient fragments	Esotericarchives	Amazon

EXTENDED

Partly astrological - useful for historical research or philosophical.

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Al Kindi	Metaphysics	9 th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Agrippa, Cornelius	Three books of Occult Philosophy	16 th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Agrippa, Cornelius	Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (Geomancy)	16 th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Al Biruni	Chronology of Ancient Nations	11th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Al Biruni	India vol. I	11th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Al Biruni	India vol. II	11th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Aristotle	Metaphysics	4th c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Aristotle	Physics	4th c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Aristotle	On the Soul	4th c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Aristotle	On the Heavens	4th c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Aristotle	Meteorologica	4th c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Ashmole, Elias	Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum	1652	Archive.org	Amazon
Dee, John	Mysteriorum Liber Quinque (Five Books of Mystical Exercises)	1583	Esotericarchives	Amazon
Dee, John	Mysteriorum Book I reformatted	1583	Esotericarchives	Amazon
Dee, John	The Hieroglyphic Monad	1564	Esotericarchives	Amazon
Magnus, Albertus	Secrets of Albertus Magnus: Herbs, stones, planets	13th c.	Archive.org	-
Manetho (Pseudo)	Early History of Egypt	3 rd c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon
Ficino, Marsilio	Book of Life	15th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Galen	On the Elements According to Hippocrates	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Galen	On the Natural Faculties	2nd c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Galileo	Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems	1632	Archive.org	Amazon
Herodotus	Histories of Herodotus	-440	Archive.org	Amazon
Hesiod	Theogeny; Works and Days	-700	Archive.org	Amazon
Newton, Sir Isaac	Principia (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)	1687	Archive.org	Amazon
Osler, William	The Evolution of Modern Medicine	1913	Gutenberg	Amazon
Paracelsus	Essential Theoretical Writings	16th c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Pliny the Elder	Natural History: Vol I \| Vol II \| Vol III \| Vol IV \| Vol V \| Vol VI \| Vol VII	1 st c.	Archive.org	Amazon
Sennert, Daniel	Thirteen Books of Natural Philosophy	1659	Archive.org	Amazon
Sennert, Daniel	Nine books of Physick and Chirurgery	1656	Archive.org	Amazon
Swift, Jonathan	Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers	1708	Gutenberg	Amazon
Thorndike, Lynn	History of magic and experimental science: Vol I \| Vol II \| Vol IV \| Vol V \| Vol VI	1923	Google	Amazon
Varro	On the Latin Language Vol I (good for etymology of astro-words)	1st c. BC	Archive.org	Amazon

SCHOLARLY

Published theses, scholarly explorations, dissertations, and peer-reviewed papers related to astrology.

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Akopyan, O.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Controversies on astrology in Renaissance Italy	2017	EThOS	-
Avelar de carvalho, H.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| The making of an astrologer in fifteenth-century France : the notebooks of S. Belle	2018	EThOS	-
Carpenter, G.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Chaucer's Solar Pageant: An Astrological Examination of The Canterbury Tales	1940	VUW.ac.nz	-
Clements, J.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| The intellectual and social declines of alchemy and astrology, circa 1650-1720	2017	EThOS	-
Clynes, F.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| An examination of the impact of the Internet on modern Western astrology	2015	uwtsd.ac.uk	-
Colborn, R. M.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Manilius on the nature of the Universe : a study of the natural-philosophical teaching of the Astronomica	2015	ORA	-
Cornelius, G.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Field of omens : a study in inductive divination	2009	KAR	-
Curry, P. M.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| The decline of astrology in early modern England 1642-1800	1986	EThOS	Amazon
Gansten, M.	Research paper \| Platikos and moirikos: Ancient Horoscopic Practice in the Light of Vettius Valens’ Anthologies	2023	Brill	-
Hamilton, T.	Research paper \| Understanding Sidereal Signs: Triplicities and the Zodiac	2025	Skyscript	-
Harris, P.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Application of astrology to health psychology : psychological and astrological factors in fertility treatment	2005	soton.ac.uk	-
Lipscomb, L. M.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| On the Cusp of Legitimacy: Professionalization in the Field of Astrology	2020	Skyscript	-
Mace, H. E.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Firmicus Maternus' Mathesis and the intellectual culture of the fourth century AD	2017	EThOS	-
Phillipson, G.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Astrology and truth: a context in contemporary epistemology	2020	uwtsd.ac.uk	-
Ridder-Patrick, J. H.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Astrology in Early Modern Scotland ca. 1560-1726	2012	ERA	-
Smithuis, R.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Abraham ibn Ezra the astrologer and the transmission of Arabic science to the Christian West	2004	EThOS	-
Snedegar, K. V.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| John Ashenden and the Scientia astrorum Mertonensis : with an edition of Ashenden's Pronosticationes	1988	ORA	-
Startup, M. J.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| The validity of astrological theory applied to personality, with reference to the angular separation of planets	1984	EThOS	-
Vladimirou, A.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Byzantine astrology in the eleventh century	2006	C&C	-
Voss, A. M.	Thesis (Ph.D.) \| Magic, astrology and music: Marsilio Ficino's astrological music therapy and his role as a Renaissance magus	1992	EThOS	-

JOURNALS

Astrological Journals with free access to published content or sample issues.

		Links to issues freely available to view online	Current?	Subscribe?
Saptarishis	Saptarishis Astrology Magazine	Various issues available for free online access	Yes	Info
Skyscript	Skyscript Newsletter	Issue 4, Dec 1995	Yes	Info
OPA	The Evolving Astrologer	Various issues available for free online access	Yes	Info
Classified	The Impractical Astrologer (Satire)	Issue 1, Dec 1995	No	OOP / Info
Ascella	The Traditional Astrologer	Issue 16, March 1998	No	OOP / Info

LATIN

Important astro-works in Greek, Latin or other older languages.


Abu Ma'shar (Albumasar)	Eight Treatises regarding Great Conjunctions, Annual Revolutions, Profections	9th c.	LOC
Abu Bakr (Albubater)	De nativitatibus	9th c.	Warburg
Al Khayyat (Albohali)	Albohali Arabis Astrologi ... De Judiciis Nativitatum (Book on the Judgement of Nativities)	9th c.	LOC
Al Qabisi (Alcabitius)	Introduction to the Art of Judgments of the Stars - Venice 1512 \| John of Saxony ed. with commentary - Lyon 1523	10th c.	LOC
Al Rijal (Haly Abenragel)	De Judiciis Astrorum (Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars) - Augsburg 1483 \| - Venice 1523 \| - Basel 1551	11th c.	LOC
Anonymous	Capitula Almansoris (collection of aphorisms)	12th c.	Warburg
Aratus	Phaenomena	4th c. BC	Archive.org
Bethen	Centiloquium \| De horis planetarum	?	Warburg
Bonatti, Guido	Foroliviensis Mathematici De Astronomia Tractatvs X	1550	Archive.org
Cardan	Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos with commentary added by Hieronymi Cardani	16th c.	LOC
Copernicus, Nicolaus	De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium	1543	Amazon
Ezra	Liber de nativitatibus	12th c.	Archive.org
Firmicus	Matheseos Libri VIII - Venice 1497 \| - Venice 1499 \| - Regiio, 1503 \| - Basel, 1553 \| - Kroll, 1897	4th c.	Archive.org
Gauricus	Tractatus astrologicus	16th c.	Warburg
Hermes	Centiloquium	?	Warburg
Hispalensis (John of Seville)	Isagoge in Astrologiam	1548	Skyscript
Hyginus, Gaius Julius	De astronomia	1st c.	LOC
Junctinus (Giuntini)	Opera Astronomica (Speculum Astrologiae)	1573	Archive.org
Leupoldus	De Astrorum Scientia	1489	Archive.org
Manilius	Astronomica - Ferrara, 1461 \| - Reggio, 1503 \| - Scaliger, 1600 \| - Breiter, 1907 \| Latin library	1st c.	Archive.org
Masha'allah	Cogitatione \| Revolutionibus \| Signific.. planetarum in nativitate \| Rebus eclipsis \| Receptionis	9th c.	Warburg
Morin	Astrologia Gallica	1661	Archive.org
Omar	De nativitatibus	8th c.	Warburg
Pierre d’Ailly	Vigintiloquium de concordia astronomice... Elucidarium astronomice concordie	15th c.	Warburg
Ptolemy	Quadripartitum (Plato de Tivoli, 12th cent) \| Venice, 1493 \| Commentary attributed to Proclus	2nd c.	Ass.
Schoener, Johannes	Opus Astrologicum (Astrological Treatise)	1539	LOC
Sahl (Zael)	Introductorium \| Quinquaginta precepta \| De electionibus	9th c.	Warburg

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