Stephen Skinner's Geomancy in Theory and Practice, published by Golden Hoard Press in 2011 as a revision of his earlier Terrestrial Astrology (1980), traces the transmission of the sixteen geomantic figures and their planetary and zodiacal attributions through Arabic, Latin and Renaissance sources. Skinner has published widely and specifically on the history of Western esoteric and divinatory practices, and the book's strength is exactly that historical transmission work, tracking a technique across centuries and cultures with citations to primary manuscripts. Its limit is that it documents the tradition's own historical development rather than testing geomancy's predictive claims, which remain a practitioner belief rather than an empirically established finding.
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Reliability tier 2: a specialist historical study tracing a technique's transmission across centuries with citations to primary manuscripts, documenting the tradition's history rather than testing its predictive claims. NotesRevision of the author's Terrestrial Astrology (1980). Traces the transmission of the sixteen figures and their planetary and zodiacal attributions through the Latin and Renaissance sources.
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AuthorStephen Skinner
PublisherGolden Hoard Press
Publication Year2011
Source Typebook
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Rituals, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Geomantic Figures, 3 claims: 3 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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