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Brief Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars

This is a digital reproduction of the Ascella Publications retyped edition of Claude Dariot’s work, first published in 1993. The first part presents the text in modern type; the second reproduces the original English edition as published in 1583. Dariot’s original work, Ad Astrorum Judicia Facilis Introductio (‘A Brief Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars’), was first published in Latin at Lyon in 1557 and issued in French the following year. The English translation reproduced here was prepared by Fabian Wither and published in London by Thomas Purfoot in 1583 under the title A Briefe and Most Easie Introduction to the Astrologicall Judgement of the Starres. The importance of this edition lies in its closeness to Dariot’s original text. Later English editions substantially expanded the work with material supplied by other authors and editors. The 1598 edition adds <a class='a1' href='https://archive.org/details/b30330270_0001/page/n9/mode/2up'>A Briefe Treatise of Mathematicall Phisicke</a>, a discussion of the astronomical causes of disease, together with supplementary tables calculated by Wither. The greatly enlarged 1653 edition, issued as <a class='a1' href='https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_dariotus-redivivus-or-a_dariot-claude_1653/page/n1/mode/2up'>Dariotus Redivivus</a>, incorporates extensive additions by Nathaniel Spark, including material on weather forecasting, navigation, and agricultural concerns aimed at contemporary English readers. For readers interested in Dariot’s own teaching, the 1583 translation remains the most faithful representation of the work that established his reputation as one of the leading astrological authors of the sixteenth century.

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Brief Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars by Claude Dariot

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Claude Dariot, Brief Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars (1583); Skyscript digital ed., Deborah Houlding (1993). Accessed: , https://www.skyscript.co.uk/dariot

Claude Dariot (1533-1594) was a French physician and astrologer whose Brief Introduction to the Judgement of the Stars became one of the most influential astrological textbooks of the late sixteenth century. Educated in medicine at Montpellier, he later settled in Beaune, where he practised as both physician and astrologer. First published in Latin in 1577, his work was translated into several languages and remained widely used for generations. William Lilly acknowledged Dariot as one of the principal authorities he drew upon when composing Christian Astrology, helping to secure the work’s lasting influence within the English astrological tradition.