The Renaissance of Astrological Poetry: Scientific Sources of Basinio da Parma’s Astronomicon libri
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Abstract
The Astronomicon libri of Basinio da Parma is the first Latin astronomical poem written during the Italian humanism movement. According to the information we possess, Basinio composed the poem at the Malatestian court in 1455. It is usually believed that the work is nothing more than an “imitation” of Aratus’s Phaenomena or Hyginus’s De astronomia, and that it lacks real scientific competence in the astronomical and astrological fields. This article, however, aims to present a brief analysis of the poem by examining the results that have emerged through the preparation of its new critical edition. In particular, thanks to both the recognition of a new Basinio autograph and the Greek glosses inserted therein, this article will show how Cleomedes’s Greek astronomical treatise, Μετέωρα (Caelestia), can be considered the main source of Basinio’s Astronomicon libri.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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