ASTROLOGY - ZODIAC - MEDICAL - SATELLITIUM. 'The Syphilitic Man' - a woodcut attributed to the German artist, Albrecht Dürer, for a broadsheet written by the physician, Theodoricus Ulsenius, who had a dream that Syphilis (then the scourge of Europe) had its origins in 1484. It was, in fact, a commonplace to trace the origins of this disease to planetary influences, and this was an attempt to ascribe it to a planetary conjunction in the sign Scorpio. The image for Scorpio, in the celestial sphere above the head of the man, is marked with the Sun and Moon (beneath the Sun) and four planets - all six of which appeared in Scorpio at the same time, in what is technically called a Satellitium. The three coats of arms alongside the head of the figure are the arms of Nuremberg, and that at his feet is the coat of arms of Ulsenius himself. The woodcut was executed in 1496 - the date in the zodiacal circle (1484) relates to the year of the conjunction in Scorpio, which occurred on 19 October of that year.

ASTROLOGY - ZODIAC - MEDICAL - SATELLITIUM. 'The Syphilitic Man' - a woodcut attributed to the German artist, Albrecht Dürer, for a broadsheet written by the physician, Theodoricus Ulsenius, who had a dream that Syphilis (then the scourge of Europe) had its origins in 1484. It was, in fact, a commonplace to trace the origins of this disease to planetary influences, and this was an attempt to ascribe it to a planetary conjunction in the sign Scorpio. The image for Scorpio, in the celestial sphere above the head of the man, is marked with the Sun and Moon (beneath the Sun) and four planets - all six of which appeared in Scorpio at the same time, in what is technically called a Satellitium. The three coats of arms alongside the head of the figure are the arms of Nuremberg, and that at his feet is the coat of arms of Ulsenius himself. The woodcut was executed in 1496 - the date in the zodiacal circle (1484) relates to the year of the conjunction in Scorpio, which occurred on 19 October of that year.

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