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54 the details step by step, and for the sake of comparison, the resulting time of the various phases (without details of calculation) by the Alphonsine Tables and Purbach's Tables; also the same data after correcting the places of the sun and moon by his own observations. He adopts the meridian 35° ab occasu, by which he probably means 35° east of the peak of Teneriffe. He recommends observers to discard clocks of any kind, but to fix the time by observing altitudes of some stars not too far from the east or west horizon, but which, when on the meridian, would have a considerable altitude, and he gives the altitudes of a few stars for the beginning and end of the eclipse and of totality. The astrological significance he computes by the rules given by Ptolemy in the second book of his Tetrabiblion. Mercury, and in the second place Saturn, are the ruling planets. The former means robbery, stealing, and piracy; the latter want, exile, and grief. The regions chiefly affected by the eclipse are those which Ptolemy specially connected with the sign of Gemini, where the moon is. These are Hircania, Armenia, Cyrene, Marmaria, and Lower Egypt, to which later astrologers have added Sardinia, Lombardy, Flanders, Brabant, and Würtemberg. It has been observed that the sign of Gemini has a special significance for Nürnberg whenever an eclipse or a conjunction took place in it, and the Nürnbergers may therefore expect something, possibly pestilence, as Gemini is a "human sign,"