07-11-2023, 03:01 AM
(06-11-2023, 10:09 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Reading about Thema Mundi, I found an example of a planetary sequence called the Chaldean Order. It arranges planets in a sequence of their speed of apparent motion from the slowest, Saturn, to the fastest, the Moon. From fastest to the slowest, starting with the Moon in Cancer, it is followed by Mercury, then Venus, and the Sun is fourth; not second like the Thema Mundi from Macrobius.
As far as I understand, this specific order from the slowest to the fastest is the order of the Spheres. E.g., the chart in De Sphaere (any edition) shows this order as the sequence of rings from the outmost to the central.

