Horoscope stemmatics

Status: Prior

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This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

Horoscope stemmatics. Computational errors in dated horoscopes are inherited from specific copies of astronomical tables — so recomputing surviving horoscopes reconstructs the copy-tree of the tables themselves. Falsify: recompute and cluster.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

recompute and cluster.

Provenance

Run: Imported conversation (verbatim harvest) · model: claude-fable-5

Origin: operator conversation with Claude Fable 5 at max effort, conducted 2026-07-03, relayed verbatim by the operator into the shepherd session on 2026-07-04. No ModelRun exists for the original generation (it happened outside the pipeline); this transcript file is the canonical capture. Transcript path: docs/generated/conjecture_harvest_fablemax_20260703.md. Model (operator-attested, not pipeline-recorded): claude-fable-5. Novelty disclaimer (verbatim, load-bearing -- rule 4): "Same caveat as before, doubled: at 100 items across all of archaeology and history, some of these will have cousins in the literature I can't check. What I can guarantee is the format — each links two things not normally linked, and each names the dataset or measurement that would kill it."

Novelty / leakage triage

Adjacent (closely related prior work exists)

Both halves exist separately: recomputation-based error dating of astronomical texts (Almagest speed/error methods) and philological transmission studies of table traditions (van Dalen; Maragha-to-Trebizond parameter tracking). The join — recomputing a horoscope corpus and clustering error patterns into a stemma of the underlying tables — was not located.

van Dalen 1993, 'Ancient and Mediaeval Astronomical Tables' — Table-transmission methodology
'Astronomical Refutation of the New Chronology' (arXiv 2504.12962) — Recomputation-error dating, single text

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