Kennedy E S and David Pingree (3 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Small quarto. Orange cloth-over-boards (9 1/4 in by 6 1/8 in.). Orange, price-clipped dustjacket. Faintest rubbing to corners. Dustjacket shows creasing and a few minor edge tears. "Professors Kennedy and Pingree have "analyzed all that is presently available of a major work ("On Conjunctions, Religions, and Peoples"), by an eighth-century Jewish Astrologer known in medieval Europe as Messahala. Their study is a significant contribution to an understanding of the origin and transmission of astrological doctrine. This work by Messahala has not survived intact but much ot it "lies embedded in another astrological work written by a Christian astrologer, entitled The Hibinta which appeared about a century and a half after Messhala's work. This work by Messhala "reflect[s] his belief that important religious and political changes are indicated by actual astronomical events -- series of conjunctions between the planets Saturn and Jupiter. Predictions are mady by casting the horoscope for the instant of the vernal equinox of the year in which a special such conjunction occurs." Very Good Plus in Good Plus Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. Orange cloth boards, orange dust jacket with black lettering. Part of the Harvard Monographs in the History of Science. Previous owner name stamp on bottom edge of dust jacket, mild toning on end papers. Jacket mildly sunned on spine and has some minor warping from moisture exposure. Light smudges on back panel. Binding tight, text clean, bright and unmarked. A lovely copy. The study of all available evidence of what remains regarding eighth-century Jewish astrologer known as Masha'allah's text "On Conjunctions, Religions, and Peoples.".

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket with slight edgewear, xvi, 206 pp., b/w plates, general index, index of horoscopes, Arabic index.