Horoscopes of the Moon: Weather Prediction as Astrology in Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos

Abstract Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos is not usually considered as a meteorological text. I examine the sections of the Tetrabiblos that deal with weather prediction and argue that Ptolemy considers it part of astrology. I show that the way Ptolemy categorises weather prediction differs significantly from other Greco-Roman writers, including Cicero (On Divination) and Sextus Empiricus (Against the Astrologers). I argue for these conclusions: first, that Ptolemy considers weather prediction to be part of astrology – i.e., a scientific practice which includes giving an account of the causes of phenomena with reference to the stars; to give such an account for the weather requires a practitioner to go beyond the observation and cataloguing of weather signs. Secondly, I argue that understanding weather prediction as astrology means that the distinction between horoscopic and general astrology is more fluid than is sometimes thought. Finally, I will show that Ptolemy’s views on weather prediction provide a case study for his view of astral causation.

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Contrail study with ground-based cameras

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions ◽

10.5194/amtd-6-7425-2013 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 7425-7472

Author(s):

U. Schumann ◽

R. Hempel ◽

H. Flentje ◽

M. Garhammer ◽

K. Graf ◽

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Keyword(s):

Weather Prediction ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Lagrangian Model ◽

Wake Vortex ◽

The Moon ◽

Movement Data ◽

Different Types ◽

Nwp Model ◽

Better Than

Abstract. Photogrammetric methods and analysis results for contrails observed with wide-angle cameras are described. Four cameras of two different types (view angle < 90° or whole-sky imager) at the ground at various positions are used to track contrails and to derive their altitude, width, and horizontal speed. Camera models for both types are described to derive the observation angles for given image coordinates and their inverse. The models are calibrated with sightings of the Sun, the Moon and a few bright stars. The methods are applied and tested in a case study. Four persistent contrails crossing each other together with a short-lived one are observed with the cameras. Vertical and horizontal positions of the contrails are determined from the camera images to an accuracy of better than 200 m and horizontal speed to 0.2 m s−1. With this information, the aircraft causing the contrails are identified by comparison to traffic waypoint data. The observations are compared with synthetic camera pictures of contrails simulated with the contrail prediction model CoCiP, a Lagrangian model using air traffic movement data and numerical weather prediction (NWP) data as input. The results provide tests for the NWP and contrail models. The cameras show spreading and thickening contrails suggesting ice-supersaturation in the ambient air. The ice-supersaturated layer is found thicker and more humid in this case than predicted by the NWP model used. The simulated and observed contrail positions agree up to differences caused by uncertain wind data. The contrail widths, which depend on wake vortex spreading, ambient shear and turbulence, were partly wider than simulated.

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Contrail study with ground-based cameras

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ◽

10.5194/amt-6-3597-2013 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (12) ◽

pp. 3597-3612 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

U. Schumann ◽

R. Hempel ◽

H. Flentje ◽

M. Garhammer ◽

K. Graf ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Weather Prediction ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Lagrangian Model ◽

Wake Vortex ◽

The Moon ◽

Movement Data ◽

Different Types ◽

Nwp Model ◽

Better Than

Abstract. Photogrammetric methods and analysis results for contrails observed with wide-angle cameras are described. Four cameras of two different types (view angle < 90° or whole-sky imager) at the ground at various positions are used to track contrails and to derive their altitude, width, and horizontal speed. Camera models for both types are described to derive the observation angles for given image coordinates and their inverse. The models are calibrated with sightings of the Sun, the Moon and a few bright stars. The methods are applied and tested in a case study. Four persistent contrails crossing each other, together with a short-lived one, are observed with the cameras. Vertical and horizontal positions of the contrails are determined from the camera images to an accuracy of better than 230 m and horizontal speed to 0.2 m s−1. With this information, the aircraft causing the contrails are identified by comparison to traffic waypoint data. The observations are compared with synthetic camera pictures of contrails simulated with the contrail prediction model CoCiP, a Lagrangian model using air traffic movement data and numerical weather prediction (NWP) data as input. The results provide tests for the NWP and contrail models. The cameras show spreading and thickening contrails, suggesting ice-supersaturation in the ambient air. The ice-supersaturated layer is found thicker and more humid in this case than predicted by the NWP model used. The simulated and observed contrail positions agree up to differences caused by uncertain wind data. The contrail widths, which depend on wake vortex spreading, ambient shear and turbulence, were partly wider than simulated.

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Development and regional planning within the decentralized administrative frame: case study (the Jordanian Experiment)

Journal of Advanced Sciences and Engineering Technologies ◽

10.32441/jaset.v1i2.121 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 60-72

Author(s):

Mansour Safran

Keyword(s):

Regional Planning ◽

The Other ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Administrative Procedures ◽

The Way

This aims to review and analyze the Jordanian experiment in the developmental regional planning field within the decentralized managerial methods, which is considered one of the primary basic provisions for applying and success of this kind of planning. The study shoed that Jordan has passed important steps in the way for implanting the decentralized administration, but these steps are still not enough to established the effective and active regional planning. The study reveled that there are many problems facing the decentralized regional planning in Jordan, despite of the clear goals that this planning is trying to achieve. These problems have resulted from the existing relationship between the decentralized administration process’ dimensions from one side, and between its levels which ranged from weak to medium decentralization from the other side, In spite of the official trends aiming at applying more of the decentralized administrative policies, still high portion of these procedures are theoretical, did not yet find a way to reality. Because any progress or success at the level of applying the decentralized administrative policies doubtless means greater effectiveness and influence on the development regional planning in life of the residents in the kingdom’s different regions. So, it is important to go a head in applying more steps and decentralized administrative procedures, gradually and continuously to guarantee the control over any negative effects that might result from Appling this kind of systems. © 2018 JASET, International Scholars and Researchers Association

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Investigating English Teacher Candidate’s Use of Instructional Media During the Teaching Practicum: A Case Study

Pancaran Pendidikan ◽

10.25037/pancaran.v9i2.287 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Rachel Ratih Ayu T ◽

Zakiyah Tasnim ◽

Annur Rofiq

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

Teacher Candidate ◽

Visual Media ◽

English Teacher ◽

Instructional Media ◽

Teaching Practicum ◽

Case Study Design ◽

The Way

This study analyzes the English teacher candidate’s use of instructional media in the teaching practicum. The English teacher candidate who became the participant in this study was doing their teaching practicum in MTsN 5 Jember. This study applied the qualitative case study design. Interview and observation were done one time to select the participant. The four-times classroom observations and questionnaires were used in order to collect the data. This study employed the model of Creswell in analyzing the data. The findings of this study showed that the English teacher candidate applied one type of instructional media namely Visual Media. Those were Picture and Whiteboard. The way the teacher candidate implemented the instructional media was almost the same in each meeting of the teaching and learning process. However, the students’ participation and response were not always the same in every meeting. It depended on the way the teacher candidate managed the class activity.

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Some funny things happened on the way to the moon

10.2514/6.1989-861 ◽

1989 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

RICHARD BATTIN

Keyword(s):

The Moon ◽

The Way

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Case study 3

10.1093/oso/9780198777212.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ewan Ferlie ◽

Sue Dopson ◽

Chris Bennett ◽

Michael D. Fischer ◽

Jean Ledger ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Public Services ◽

Management Consulting ◽

Organizational Redesign ◽

Management Consultants ◽

Management Knowledge ◽

Problems And Solutions ◽

Financial Interests ◽

The Way

The chapter discusses management consultants and consulting knowledge in health care, highlighting significant expenditure on consultancy and how consultants have shaped thinking in public services, which some critics suggest has served consultants’ own (financial) interests. The chapter then discusses the way consultants mobilize management knowledge and frame clients’ problems and solutions. It discusses an empirical case study of a consultancy project to redesign NHS organizations to make substantial ‘efficiency savings’. Here, consultants framed the NHS’s problem and solution, and then imposed an organizational redesign. Local NHS managers and clinicians framed the NHS’s problem differently, doubting the consultants’ framing and proposing redesign, but feeling unable to engage in dialogue about these concerns. Consequently, they engaged with the project in a calculated and defensive way, superficially accepting the redesign while waiting for its implementation to fail. Thus, the chapter demonstrates framing politics surrounding management consulting knowledge.

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Imagery in the Book of Revelation

The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Revelation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190655433.013.3 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 52-67

Author(s):

Konrad Huber

Keyword(s):

Reception History ◽

Book Of Revelation ◽

Imperial Cult ◽

Emotional Effect ◽

Greco Roman ◽

Different Types ◽

Figurative Speech ◽

Theological Message ◽

Over Time ◽

The Way

The chapter first surveys different types of figurative speech in Revelation, including simile, metaphor, symbol, and narrative image. Second, it considers the way images are interrelated in the narrative world of the book. Third, it notes how the images draw associations from various backgrounds, including biblical and later Jewish sources, Greco-Roman myths, and the imperial cult, and how this enriches the understanding of the text. Fourth, the chapter looks at the rhetorical impact of the imagery on readers and stresses in particular its evocative, persuasive, and parenetic function together with its emotional effect. And fifth, it looks briefly at the way reception history shows how the imagery has engaged readers over time. Thus, illustrated by numerous examples, it becomes clear how essentially the imagery of the book of Revelation constitutes and determines its theological message.

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