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Author–year system. In-text parenthetical citations correspond one-to-one with this list; Chinese classics use standard punctuated editions; digital archives and non-peer-reviewed sources are flagged in their entries.

Astronomy and Calendrics

Bretagnon, P., & Francou, G. 1988. Planetary Theories in Rectangular and Spherical Variables — VSOP 87 Solutions. Astronomy and Astrophysics 202: 309–315. (Source publication of the VSOP87 perturbation series.)
Espenak, F., & Meeus, J. 2006. Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: −1999 to +3000. NASA/TP-2006-214141. Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (Reference canon for eclipse-coverage checks.)
Hunger, H., & Steele, J. M. 2019. MUL.APIN: An Astronomical Treatise and Its Contexts. Wien: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. (ca. 1000 BCE: sixty-six-star catalogue, rising/setting, shadow and water-clock tables.)
Justeson, J., & Lowry, J. 2025. The Design and Reconstructible History of the Mayan Eclipse Table of the Dresden Codex. Science Advances 11(43): eadt9039. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt9039. (69 stations: 55 intended eclipse warnings, 14 structural; resets at months 358/223; 1,655-month master cycle.)
Li, B., Luo, D., et al. 2026. OBIMD: A Multi-modal Dataset for Contextual Interpretation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Scientific Data. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-06967-0 (preprint arXiv:2407.03900, 2024). 10,077 oracle-bone images, 93,652 annotated characters.
Neugebauer, O. 1955. Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. London: Lund Humphries. (Primary edition of Babylonian Systems A/B.)
Neugebauer, O. 1975. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. Berlin: Springer. (Systematic treatment of Babylonian planetary Acta schemes.)
Sivin, N. 1969. Cosmos and Computation in Early Chinese Mathematical Astronomy. T'oung Pao 55: 1–73. (Classic study of the Jupiter chronology and the chaochen system.)
Sivin, N. 2009. Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9. (Complete annotated translation of the Shoushi canon, including cubic interpolation.)
Steele, J. M. 2000. Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers. Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Numerical checks of the Metonic and Saros cycles and ancient eclipse prediction.)
Ptolemy, C. 1940. Tetrabiblos (trans. F. E. Robbins). Loeb Classical Library 435. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Source document of the house–domain system.)

Chinese Computational Arts and Texts

Cullen, C. 2011. Wu xing zhan 五星占 'Prognostics of the Five Planets'. SCIAMVS 12: 193–249. (Full translation and mathematical study of the Mawangdui Wuxingzhan; see also Cullen, Early Science and Medicine 16(3): 218–251, 2011.)
Ho, P.-Y. 2003. Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching Numbers to the Heavens. London: RoutledgeCurzon. (Mathematics of the Song Bureau's three cosmic-board instruments.)
Needham, J. 1959. Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Master survey of Chinese calendrical astronomy.)
Pingree, D. 1973. The Mesopotamian Origin of Early Indian Mathematical Astronomy. Journal for the History of Astronomy 4: 1–12. doi:10.1177/002182867300400102. (Representative study in the India–Babylonia mansions debate.)
Sun, X., & Kistemaker, J. 1997. The Chinese Sky during the Han: Constellating Stars and Society. Leiden: Brill. (The measured, unequal character of the Chinese mansions.)
Shiji "Tianguanshu," Hanshu "Tianwenzhi," Yuanshi "Lizhi": Zhonghua Book Company punctuated editions (volumes cited parenthetically in text).
Mawangdui silk Wuxingzhan transcription and the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quanshu (standard edition): Wikisource digital versions (non-peer-reviewed carriers, used only as sources of the original text).

Near Eastern and Mediterranean Astrology

Bouché-Leclercq, A. 1899. L'astrologie grecque. Paris: Ernest Leroux. (Foundational survey of Hellenistic house systems.)
Cauville, S. 1997. Le zodiaque d'Osiris. Louvain: Peeters. (Scholarly study of the Dendera zodiac.)
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG). 1898–1953. Brussels et al.: Lamertin et al. (Union catalogue of Greek astrological manuscripts.)
Fowden, G. 1986. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The technical Hermetica / philosophical Hermetica division.)
North, J. D. 1986. Horoscopes and History. London: Warburg Institute, University of London. (Systematic history of house division.)
Rochberg, F. 2004. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Omen–astronomy symbiosis; formal discipline is not causal knowledge.)
Rochberg, F. 2010. In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy. Leiden: Brill. (Continuity and change in omen literature; the conditional form and its reasoning.)
West, E. W. 1880. Pahlavi Texts, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5). Oxford: Clarendon Press. (English translation of the Bundahishn; the seven planetary chieftains.)
Panaino, A. "Astrology and Astronomy in Iran" and related entries, Encyclopaedia Iranica, online edition (scholarly reference work; Sasanian transmission of Greek astrology and the zāyča/zīg vocabulary).
Omen transliterations cited from the oracc/gkab digital corpus (P363689 et al.; scholarly digital archive).

Binary and Misreading

Leibniz, G. W. 1703. Explication de l'arithmétique binaire. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris): 85–93. (Primary document of binary arithmetic; background of the Bouvet correspondence.)
Ryan, J. A. 1996. Leibniz' Binary System and Shao Yong's "Yijing". Philosophy East and West 46(1): 59–90. doi:10.2307/1399337. (Peer-reviewed survey of the Leibniz–Shaoyong case; the reading-direction dispute and missionary motives are covered here.)
Schumann, A. 2021. Logical Reasoning for Forecasting in Mesopotamia. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 66(79). doi:10.2478/slgr-2021-0044. (Boolean-algebraic formalization of the Babylonian omen series, after De Zorzi's reconstruction.)
De Zorzi, N. Editions and reconstructions of the Babylonian omen series (ERC "REPAC" project, University of Vienna).

Tarot and the History of the Occult

Dummett, M. 1980. The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City. London: Duckworth. (Standard scholarly account of the tarot's fifteenth-century north-Italian court origin.)
Dummett, M., & McLeod, J. 2004. A History of the Occult Tarot, 1870–1960. London: Duckworth. (Formation history of the Golden Dawn astro–tarot correspondences; Etteilla's pioneering assignments as relayed here.)
Mathers, S. L. M. 1888. Book T — The Tarot. (Golden Dawn manuscript; sacred-texts digital facsimile, non-peer-reviewed carrier, used only as a source of the original text.)

Statistics and Experimental Method

Bates, D., Mächler, M., Bolker, B., & Walker, S. 2015. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software 67(1): 1–48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01. (Estimation framework for the mixed-effects model.)
Cohen, J. 1988. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (Basis of the paired-design power computation: d = 0.4, α = .05, power .8.)
Knuth, D. E. 1997. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, 3rd ed., §3.4.2. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. (Fisher–Yates shuffling.)
Rammstedt, B., & John, O. P. 2007. Measuring Personality in One Minute or Less: A 10-Item Short Version of the Big Five Inventory. Journal of Research in Personality 41(1): 203–212. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001. (BFI-10.)
Tobacyk, J. J. 2004. A Revised Paranormal Belief Scale. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 23(1): 94–98. (Brief paranormal-belief scale.)
This study's yoked experiment: OSF preregistration (pending); CSPRNG audit and χ² uniformity test (df = 77) are in-house procedures, detailed in the Appendix A-4 notes.

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References

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2026-08-31 · references.md

References

Astronomy and Calendrics

Bretagnon, P., & Francou, G. 1988. Planetary Theories in Rectangular and Spherical Variables — VSOP 87 Solutions. Astronomy and Astrophysics 202: 309–315. (Source publication of the VSOP87 perturbation series.)
Espenak, F., & Meeus, J. 2006. Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses: −1999 to +3000. NASA/TP-2006-214141. Greenbelt, MD: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (Reference canon for eclipse-coverage checks.)
Hunger, H., & Steele, J. M. 2019. MUL.APIN: An Astronomical Treatise and Its Contexts. Wien: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. (ca. 1000 BCE: sixty-six-star catalogue, rising/setting, shadow and water-clock tables.)
Justeson, J., & Lowry, J. 2025. The Design and Reconstructible History of the Mayan Eclipse Table of the Dresden Codex. Science Advances 11(43): eadt9039. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt9039. (69 stations: 55 intended eclipse warnings, 14 structural; resets at months 358/223; 1,655-month master cycle.)
Li, B., Luo, D., et al. 2026. OBIMD: A Multi-modal Dataset for Contextual Interpretation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Scientific Data. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-06967-0 (preprint arXiv:2407.03900, 2024). 10,077 oracle-bone images, 93,652 annotated characters.
Neugebauer, O. 1955. Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. London: Lund Humphries. (Primary edition of Babylonian Systems A/B.)
Neugebauer, O. 1975. A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. Berlin: Springer. (Systematic treatment of Babylonian planetary Acta schemes.)
Sivin, N. 1969. Cosmos and Computation in Early Chinese Mathematical Astronomy. T'oung Pao 55: 1–73. (Classic study of the Jupiter chronology and the chaochen system.)
Sivin, N. 2009. Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-78956-9. (Complete annotated translation of the Shoushi canon, including cubic interpolation.)
Steele, J. M. 2000. Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers. Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Numerical checks of the Metonic and Saros cycles and ancient eclipse prediction.)
Ptolemy, C. 1940. Tetrabiblos (trans. F. E. Robbins). Loeb Classical Library 435. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Source document of the house–domain system.)

Chinese Computational Arts and Texts

Cullen, C. 2011. Wu xing zhan 五星占 'Prognostics of the Five Planets'. SCIAMVS 12: 193–249. (Full translation and mathematical study of the Mawangdui Wuxingzhan; see also Cullen, Early Science and Medicine 16(3): 218–251, 2011.)
Ho, P.-Y. 2003. Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching Numbers to the Heavens. London: RoutledgeCurzon. (Mathematics of the Song Bureau's three cosmic-board instruments.)
Needham, J. 1959. Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Master survey of Chinese calendrical astronomy.)
Pingree, D. 1973. The Mesopotamian Origin of Early Indian Mathematical Astronomy. Journal for the History of Astronomy 4: 1–12. doi:10.1177/002182867300400102. (Representative study in the India–Babylonia mansions debate.)
Sun, X., & Kistemaker, J. 1997. The Chinese Sky during the Han: Constellating Stars and Society. Leiden: Brill. (The measured, unequal character of the Chinese mansions.)
Shiji "Tianguanshu," Hanshu "Tianwenzhi," Yuanshi "Lizhi": Zhonghua Book Company punctuated editions (volumes cited parenthetically in text).
Mawangdui silk Wuxingzhan transcription and the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quanshu (standard edition): Wikisource digital versions (non-peer-reviewed carriers, used only as sources of the original text).

Near Eastern and Mediterranean Astrology

Bouché-Leclercq, A. 1899. L'astrologie grecque. Paris: Ernest Leroux. (Foundational survey of Hellenistic house systems.)
Cauville, S. 1997. Le zodiaque d'Osiris. Louvain: Peeters. (Scholarly study of the Dendera zodiac.)
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum (CCAG). 1898–1953. Brussels et al.: Lamertin et al. (Union catalogue of Greek astrological manuscripts.)
Fowden, G. 1986. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The technical Hermetica / philosophical Hermetica division.)
North, J. D. 1986. Horoscopes and History. London: Warburg Institute, University of London. (Systematic history of house division.)
Rochberg, F. 2004. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Omen–astronomy symbiosis; formal discipline is not causal knowledge.)
Rochberg, F. 2010. In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy. Leiden: Brill. (Continuity and change in omen literature; the conditional form and its reasoning.)
West, E. W. 1880. Pahlavi Texts, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5). Oxford: Clarendon Press. (English translation of the Bundahishn; the seven planetary chieftains.)
Panaino, A. "Astrology and Astronomy in Iran" and related entries, Encyclopaedia Iranica, online edition (scholarly reference work; Sasanian transmission of Greek astrology and the zāyča/zīg vocabulary).
Omen transliterations cited from the oracc/gkab digital corpus (P363689 et al.; scholarly digital archive).

Binary and Misreading

Leibniz, G. W. 1703. Explication de l'arithmétique binaire. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris): 85–93. (Primary document of binary arithmetic; background of the Bouvet correspondence.)
Ryan, J. A. 1996. Leibniz' Binary System and Shao Yong's "Yijing". Philosophy East and West 46(1): 59–90. doi:10.2307/1399337. (Peer-reviewed survey of the Leibniz–Shaoyong case; the reading-direction dispute and missionary motives are covered here.)
Schumann, A. 2021. Logical Reasoning for Forecasting in Mesopotamia. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 66(79). doi:10.2478/slgr-2021-0044. (Boolean-algebraic formalization of the Babylonian omen series, after De Zorzi's reconstruction.)
De Zorzi, N. Editions and reconstructions of the Babylonian omen series (ERC "REPAC" project, University of Vienna).

Tarot and the History of the Occult

Dummett, M. 1980. The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City. London: Duckworth. (Standard scholarly account of the tarot's fifteenth-century north-Italian court origin.)
Dummett, M., & McLeod, J. 2004. A History of the Occult Tarot, 1870–1960. London: Duckworth. (Formation history of the Golden Dawn astro–tarot correspondences; Etteilla's pioneering assignments as relayed here.)
Mathers, S. L. M. 1888. Book T — The Tarot. (Golden Dawn manuscript; sacred-texts digital facsimile, non-peer-reviewed carrier, used only as a source of the original text.)

Statistics and Experimental Method

Bates, D., Mächler, M., Bolker, B., & Walker, S. 2015. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software 67(1): 1–48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01. (Estimation framework for the mixed-effects model.)
Cohen, J. 1988. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (Basis of the paired-design power computation: d = 0.4, α = .05, power .8.)
Knuth, D. E. 1997. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, 3rd ed., §3.4.2. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. (Fisher–Yates shuffling.)
Rammstedt, B., & John, O. P. 2007. Measuring Personality in One Minute or Less: A 10-Item Short Version of the Big Five Inventory. Journal of Research in Personality 41(1): 203–212. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001. (BFI-10.)
Tobacyk, J. J. 2004. A Revised Paranormal Belief Scale. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 23(1): 94–98. (Brief paranormal-belief scale.)
This study's yoked experiment: OSF preregistration (pending); CSPRNG audit and χ² uniformity test (df = 77) are in-house procedures, detailed in the Appendix A-4 notes.