- Project Hindsight
Project Hindsight is a translation project that was originally founded in in 1993 in order to translate and interpret the surviving texts of the Western astrological tradition. The project is mainly supported by the astrological community through donations and through sales of translations and related material.
History
The original incarnation of Project Hindsight was a publishing company founded by Ellen Black, Clifford Martin, and Robert Schmidt in 1985 called The Golden Hind Press. The Golden Hind Press was originally devoted to the translation of relatively unfamiliar works in the history of mathematics, science, and logic.
In 1993 Project Hindsight was started by
Robert Schmidt , Ellen Black,Robert Hand , andRobert Zoller in order to make the primary source texts of the western astrological tradition available in modern English translations. Initially the project was broad in its scope and a preliminary translation series was released in the mid-1990s which consisted of works astrological works from several different traditions which were translated from Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Gradually the focus of the project shifted more towards the investigation ofHellenistic astrology in particular.References
*The Project Hindsight website [http://www.projecthindsight.com/]
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