The year before he wrote his famous book on fixed stars, Vivian
Robson (1890-1942) wrote this one. In it, he put the distillation
of four years intense work, spent in the British Museum Reading
Room, where he studied very nearly every astrology book ever
written, in English and Latin. To this day, he is virtually the
only man to have ever undertaken a study of this magnitude.What
makes the Student's Text-Book of Astrology unique is its
unparalleled wealth of detail. Topics include Personal Appearance,
Character and Mind, Health and Accidents, Finance, Occupation, and
much more. For each, Robson gives specific rules of judgment and
then supplies aphorisms collected from many ancient sources. The
result is one of the most comprehensive astrology books ever
written.." . . I]n private conversation he would talk for hours on
the science of which he was a master. Indeed, his knowledge, not
only of astrology but of many other sciences, was phenomenal; and
few who enjoyed his conversation could fail to go away with an
enhanced knowledge of whatever subject had been under discussion.He
will be remembered best by his two chief books, A Student's
Text-book of Astrology and The Fixed Stars and Constellations in
Astrology. Of these the former is deservedly popular and the latter
is a classic, containing as it does a mass of information dating
from the days of Greek mythology up to modern times." - C.E.O.
Carter "I have heard him converse knowledgeably on a dozen and one
different subjects. I really believe he knew something about
everything, but so far as astrology was concerned his versatility
showed forth in a phenomenal knowledge of his subject. To converse
on astrology with him, even if only for one short hour, was
inevitably to gain something new and valuable in the way of
experience and information." - Dorothy Ryan In this Memorial
Edition, Obituaries by Charles Carter and George H. Bailey; Prof.
Hugh S. Torrens' monograph, Curator Turned Astrologer; an
Appreciation, by Dorothy Ryan; an Afterword by the publisher, David
R. Roell, a newly prepared index, Robson's Death Certificate, and
more. The finest of all of Vivian Robson's books, back in print at
last.
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