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Periodical: Urania

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Urania.
A Monthly Journal of Astrology, Metereology and Physical Science.
1880--1880 Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. Editor: Alfred J. Pearce.
1/1-9, January-September 1880. 6s. 6d. a year. 32 pp. 9 issues only.

Pearce (1849-1923) was a homeopathic physician and belonged to the "scientific" side of astrology, as contrasted with the occult side. He also edited Star Lore, the Future and Zadkiel's Almanac. On him see the note under Star Lore. Advertised in Banner of Light 47/19 (July 31, 1880): 5.

Other Sources:Northwestern University.
Issues:Urania V1 1880
Claude-Generated Themes:   'Urania' (1880) is among the most single-minded astrological journals in the collection, its vocabulary saturated with conjunctions, ascendants, zodiacal signs, and nativities. Its characteristic work is mundane and natural astrology: solar-revolution charts read for war and politics, and planetary and lunar positions correlated with the weather, crop yields, and even epidemic mortality, all set within a framework of classical lunar mythology that identifies Artemis, Isis, and Ceres with the Moon. Only a faint thread of Reichenbach's 'odic' force interrupts the astrological focus. It is best read as a dedicated astrological periodical of the late nineteenth century with a strong mundane and meteorological cast.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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