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As a valuable legacy of the Muslim presence in the mainland, proliferated in the Middle Ages some manuscripts that dealt with healing and magical properties of stones. Were called lapidary.
The lapidary magical properties relate to the various minerals with celestial constellations. They believed that every stone was influenced by a star and also their powers varied according to the zodiac cycle.
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The best-known jewelers are writing that sent King Alfonso X the Wise and preserved in the Library de El Escorial. Although, over the centuries, numerous treaties were studying the magical powers of stones.
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With a large number of incunabula and content-diversity open to speculation, "and before the advance of medical science based on the healing properties of plants (and later the fungus), this" science "evolved to the identification of certain minerals present some properties "healing."
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lapidary In repeated several thumbnails of each constellation, but in each lighting was a golden point in a star other than stating the ruling powers every rock studied. In the picture, you can see the representation of Cassiopeia, or "Woman in a Chair", with a gold dot at the waist.
Besides the "soap opera this mythological queen of Ethiopia who compared the beauty of his daughter Andromeda to the daughters of Nereus, a constellation Cassiopeia is easy to identify in the sky because, with the naked eye at any time of year, you can see 5 of their brightest stars forming a W , with his hand cupped to the North Star.
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Among these stars, the most apparent brightness Scheda corresponds to (alpha-Cassiopeiae), an orange giant star of magnitude 2.2. Two other adjacent stars in brightness followed: Caph (beta-Cassiopeiae) a sub-yellow-white giant that is located on the far right of the W and Tsih (gamma-Cassiopeiae) an eruptive variable star in intensity in the center of this W, which corresponds, in turn, to the waist of our Queen Cassiopeia.
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Among these stars, the most apparent brightness Scheda corresponds to (alpha-Cassiopeiae), an orange giant star of magnitude 2.2. Two other adjacent stars in brightness followed: Caph (beta-Cassiopeiae) a sub-yellow-white giant that is located on the far right of the
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