Why are William Lilly horary rules registered but not published?
The source is public domain, but the available machine transcriptions identified by the registry are unproofread OCR of difficult seventeenth-century typography. Publishing extracted rules would claim transcription fidelity that the evidence cannot support. The tradition remains registered while its rule set remains empty.
Direct answer
The source is public domain, but the available machine transcriptions identified by the registry are unproofread OCR of difficult seventeenth-century typography. Publishing extracted rules would claim transcription fidelity that the evidence cannot support. The tradition remains registered while its rule set remains empty.
Practical use
What to do with this answer
Treat source rights, transcription quality, passage identity, and rule formalization as separate gates. A public-domain label clears only the rights question.
Distinctions to preserve
- Public-domain status versus usable transcription
- OCR availability versus passage fidelity
- Registered tradition versus published rule corpus
Limitations
- This is a statement about the currently reviewed source route, not every possible edition.
- Withholding rules makes no empirical judgment about horary astrology.
Authority graph
Which existing contracts carry the answer
These linked pages carry the underlying definition, method, or tradition record and its own sources. This page preserves their boundaries rather than becoming a new source of independent authority.
Horary (Lilly) →
Establishes: The question-based practice codified in William Lilly’s Christian Astrology, which judges a chart cast for the moment a question is understood rather than for a birth.
Boundary: No rights-cleared, proofread transcription of the 1647 text is available. The source is public domain, but every machine transcription found is unproofread OCR; publishing rules from it would violate this layer’s transcription-fidelity claim.
Reproducibility digests and calculation provenance →
Establishes: A digest is a cryptographic hash of canonical serialized data. It detects change but does not by itself prove that the data were true.
Boundary: A valid digest proves integrity relative to its hashed bytes, not scientific validity or authorship.
Prospective scoring without post-hoc frame selection →
Establishes: Every model receives the same eligible tasks, outcome definitions, information cutoff, scoring rule, blinded evaluation schedule, and prospectively fixed stopping point.
Boundary: Do not report the better retrospective score as the prospective policy, drop discordant tasks, tune weights on the test set, or call agreement proof of truth.
Equivalent questions
These query forms resolve to this same answer identity; they are not separate claims.
- Why are there no horary rules on Maha?
- Is William Lilly public domain?
- Can unproofread OCR be used as evidence?
- What blocks the horary tradition registry?
Non-claim
This answer is a method or tradition description. It is not a personalized reading and does not certify predictive validity, causation, medical outcomes, legal status, investment value, or guaranteed events.