William Backhouse (1593 - 1662)

A leading alchemist who also taught Elias Ashmole, it is the latter who provides the following data perserved in his autobiographical notes.

The data given by Ashmole  is 1 am 17 January 1593 OS (although 1593 is the year used by him, rather than 1592) at Swallowfield, Berkshire 51° 21'N. Modern software produces the following chart and can only be taken as an approximation. However, Harvey's calculations result in an Ascendant of 10° Scorpio with differences of about half a degree on the intermediate cusps. Harvey provides Ashmole's planetary positions like so:

Sun 7° Aquarius; Moon 19° Sagittarius; Mercury 25° Aquarius; Venus 6° Pisces; Mars 7° Sagittarius; Jupiter 9° Capricorn; Saturn 22° Cancer; North Node 15° Gemini. Harvey does not provide the positions of the house cusps, and there seems no way of reconciling the differences.