About John of Eschenden
John of Eschenden was an astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.
De accidentibus mundi summa iudicialis, 15th-century manuscript. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Fondo manoscritti, ms. A 201 inf. - 15th century - ff. 129
John of Eschenden was a fourteenth-century English astrologer. He was supposed to have predicted the onset of the Black Death. He also was one of those applying astrological techniques to the Apocalypse. Eschenden's reputation was assured by the 1489 publication of the Summa astrologiae judicialis (Summa Anglicana), attributed to him.
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English astrologer of the fourteenth century
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