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Campanus
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Campanus (Astrology) 
A system of houses based on equal twelvefold division of the prime vertical, as opposed to the ecliptic. In the 13th century Campanus, a mathematician, popularised this system in the West, but it was used by Al-Biruni in the 11th century as 'the system of Hermes', suggesting a much earlier origin, perhaps dating back to Manilius.
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