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Reviewer: Vaticidalprophet ( talk · contribs) 00:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Davidbena -- per my comments at Nableezy's talk, I'm interested in reviewing this article :) It's very solid work, and I hopefully won't have too many comments. I'm making this page to commit to a review, but due to current factors in my life will need at least a couple days to start serious work on it, which I hope is okay with you. Vaticidal prophet 00:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
A couple of general notes:
Maimonides, who lived in the late twelfth centuryrather than
Maimonides (1138–1204), in his day.
Other rabbis have vaunted their knowledge of applied astrology. Said Samuel of Nehardea, "I know the pathways of heaven as I do the pathways of Nehardea, excepting the comet, about which I know nothing."[7] Elsewhere, Samuel of Nehardea said: "I am familiar with the streets of the firmament [in heaven] just as I am familiar with the streets of Nehardea."These quotes are almost identical -- is there a reason to have both?
Will make further comments later. I've enjoyed reading this article so far; it's an in-depth work on a subject (astrology in history and religion) that is frequently covered poorly on Wikipedia. Vaticidal prophet 10:08, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
[Note: The ancients conceived that there were only seven primary planets. The moon, although a satellite rather than a planet, was also numbered among them; the sun, which is a star rather than a planet, was also numbered among them. The earth was not numbered among them since it was central to the rest. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, as well as the other recently discovered planets and satellites, were not known to the ancients, and therefore are considered trivial to the rest]should be converted into a footnote proper, rather than being bracketed in the text.
I've been reading over this for a few days, and am mostly thinking about the title issue. I've ran into unexpected issues when editing articles about the history of similar subjects and individuals who are interested in them, and especially given that the bold text in the lead is a slightly different title to the article, it might be ideal to move the article itself to such a title. Vaticidal prophet 15:16, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Vaticidalprophet ( talk · contribs) 00:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Davidbena -- per my comments at Nableezy's talk, I'm interested in reviewing this article :) It's very solid work, and I hopefully won't have too many comments. I'm making this page to commit to a review, but due to current factors in my life will need at least a couple days to start serious work on it, which I hope is okay with you. Vaticidal prophet 00:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
A couple of general notes:
Maimonides, who lived in the late twelfth centuryrather than
Maimonides (1138–1204), in his day.
Other rabbis have vaunted their knowledge of applied astrology. Said Samuel of Nehardea, "I know the pathways of heaven as I do the pathways of Nehardea, excepting the comet, about which I know nothing."[7] Elsewhere, Samuel of Nehardea said: "I am familiar with the streets of the firmament [in heaven] just as I am familiar with the streets of Nehardea."These quotes are almost identical -- is there a reason to have both?
Will make further comments later. I've enjoyed reading this article so far; it's an in-depth work on a subject (astrology in history and religion) that is frequently covered poorly on Wikipedia. Vaticidal prophet 10:08, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
[Note: The ancients conceived that there were only seven primary planets. The moon, although a satellite rather than a planet, was also numbered among them; the sun, which is a star rather than a planet, was also numbered among them. The earth was not numbered among them since it was central to the rest. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, as well as the other recently discovered planets and satellites, were not known to the ancients, and therefore are considered trivial to the rest]should be converted into a footnote proper, rather than being bracketed in the text.
I've been reading over this for a few days, and am mostly thinking about the title issue. I've ran into unexpected issues when editing articles about the history of similar subjects and individuals who are interested in them, and especially given that the bold text in the lead is a slightly different title to the article, it might be ideal to move the article itself to such a title. Vaticidal prophet 15:16, 4 July 2023 (UTC)