The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests

Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436-1476), better known as Regiomontanus, is widely considered the most influential astronomer and mathematician of 15th-century Europe. He was active an astrologer deemed astrology to be queen mathematical sciences. Despite this, Regiomontanus's astrological activity has yet fully explored. A brief examination manuscripts shows that his interests were accompanied by in arts methods prognostication. This article studies unconventional astrological-chiromantical text, whose relevance threefold: a) it sheds new light on interests; b) enriches our knowledge efforts learn understand Greek-Regiomontanus transcribed into own manuscript during sojourn Italy from 1460-1467; c) sole extant text Greek tradition provides a system for prognostication study person's hand, parts which are being under domain planets. The English translation transcription, alongside commentary, intellectual historical context production through analysis.