Top Research Papers on Astrology

This article explores John Aubrey's (1627–1697) extensive use of astrology in his biographical collection Brief Lives (1680–1681), which has been widely celebrated for its vivid portrayal of seventeenth-century English culture and society. Aubrey's life writing was not only informed by his antiquarian pursuits, the vibrant coffee house culture of his time and his lively scientific community, but also by the practice of astrology. Through Aubrey's horoscope collection, Collectio geniturarum (1674–1690), and his correspondence with a wide astrological network, this article traces his deep engage...

While the clay used to write cuneiform tablets is well suited to impressing the wedges of cuneiform signs it is not an ideal medium for the curved lines and detailed marks needed to create illustrative diagrams of the heavens well known in neighboring cultures. Yet, in a selection of examples, cuneiform scholars of astronomy and astrology used clay to sketch out complex diagrams of celestial arrangements and schematic representations of astrological concepts. This article will survey the corpus of astronomical and astrological diagrams preserved from cuneiform sources and summarize key observa...

This guide is an introduction to astrology for the amateur astrologer. Find information on the history of astrology, learn how to better understand your sign, and discover ways to connect with others interested in astrology.

In general,* when pre-modern and modern texts and images—and today, even films—depict someone with an astrolabe, it suggests not only that they are practising astronomy, but also that they are familiar with astrology, and perhaps even magic.1 To what extent, however, was the astrolabe really an astrological instrument? To begin to address this question, this chapter revisits the earliest evidence concerning astrolabes, texts and instruments, bearing in mind their reliance on earlier traditions.2 First, it will examine treatises on the construction and use of the astrolabe, two from late Antiqu...

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The following notes are primarily, although not exclusively, concerned with manuscripts seen in the summer of 1957 at the British Museum, London, and Bodleian Library, Oxford. At first the treatment will be topical, considering such matters as the time of the vernal equinox, astronomical terminology, calendars and eclipses, computus, mansions of the moon, lists of fixed stars, signs of the zodiac, position and movement of the sun, astronomical tables, and weather prediction. Then, after noting two manuscripts of Thebit ben Corat, a so-called Summa astrologia, and identifying a so-called Liber ...

Klasik şairler, pek çok konuyu şiirlerine çeşni olarak katmıştır. Şairler diğer ilimlerin yanında ilm-i tencim, ilm-i nücûm olarak bilinen astroloji ve astronomi ile ilgili pek çok olguyu da edebiyatla harmanlamış ve çeşitli sanatlarla eserlerine dâhil etmiştir. Cevzâ olarak bilinen İkizler burcu da bu olgulardan biridir. Burçlar kuşağı üzerinde bir takımyıldız olan İkizler, Cevzâ, Tevemîm, Ettevemân, Dü-peyker gibi isimlerle de bilinir. Latince’de Gemini olarak geçer. Avcı takımyıldızı ise Grek mitolojisinde Orion olarak bilinen bir devdir. Avcı, Araplar tarafından Cebbâr olarak isimlendiri...

"Ever since my first journey to India I have desired to share the knowledge I was fortunate enough to receive. I have also felt a need to dispel some rather major misconceptions, the main one being the fact that Hindu astrology is extraordinarily difficult. This is not true, as will soon hopefully be revealed. Although I have always been most fascinated with astrology because of the philosophical implications and revelations which can be extracted. I have done my best to keep philosophy from this work, as that is not my present purpose. It is my intention only to present Hindu astrology in a w...

1. Introduction 2. The Old Stone Age 3. The Neolithic Era 4. The Bronze Age and Celts 5. The Cosmic State in Mesopotamia and Egypt 6. Babylonian Astrology 7. Egypt: the religion of the stars 8. The Assyrians 9. The Jewish Legacy 10. The Persian Revolution 11. The Early Medieval World 12. The Twelfth Century Renaissance 13. The Thirteenth Century: Magic and Politics 14. Medieval Cosmology 15. The High Middle Ages 16. The Fifteenth Century: the pagan revival 17. Reform and Revolution 18. Renaissance Magic 19. The Seventeenth Century: the Last Flowering 20. Decline.

During the year of writing my master's dissertation on William Turner’s New Herball, I came across a very intriguing subject on how to cultivate plants, grow plants and how to pick flowers, mushrooms and herbs at the right moment for the best efficiency as parts of the pharmacopoeia.

This is a book of considerable 'learning', but also of abysmal ignorance. The 'learning' is evident in Lindsay's managing to touch upon virtually every superficial aspect of the history of astral omens and of astrology in Antiquity, the ignorance in his failure to understand much of anything of a technical nature. The familiar names, anecdotes, fables are all to be found dumped in chronological order into his pages; the meaning of it all is missing. Lindsay's extensive, though far from thorough, knowledge of the existence of relevant literature is demonstrated by his compactly (one could say o...

In a Vatican manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century or the early years of the fifteenth is an anonymous criticism of astrology which seems not to have been hitherto noticed. (i) It is the second item in the manuscript and from the fact that it is preceded by the De configuratione qualitatum of NICHOLAS ORESME, which is also anonymous here (2), and that it shares some of the characteristics of ORESME'S several known attacks upon astrology, might be thought to be by him or HENRY OF HESSE or someone of their school. It may also be recalled that WALTER CATO, penitentiary to JOHN X...

During this century English almanacs of the early modern period have been studied from a number of different perspectives. In 1917 E. F. Bosanquet published his research on the bibliographical aspects of English almanacs, and bibliographers have since continued his pioneering work. Some forty years ago Marjorie Nicolson and F. R. Johnson used sixteenthand seventeenth-century almanacs to illustrate the rise and popularization of the 'new astronomy' in England, and Nicolson in particular emphasized the important evidence to be found in almanacs for intellectual historians of die period. More rec...

The role of astrology in Jewish medicine, which was another field of great significance for therapeutics, is discussed, which was another field of great significance for therapeutics.

In its original Babylonian and Egyptian contexts, astrology was the interpretation of celestial signs and omens sent by the gods as warnings to rulers and the elite. Roman fondness for Stoicism fertilized the growth of astrology in the Greco-Roman world, which developed into a natural science, fully integrated with the prevailing cosmology. Astrology became popularized, and anyone who could afford some level of the service knew basic features of his natal chart. The chapter explains the various forms and purposes of judicial or divinatory astrology: “mundane” (heavenly effects on regions), “ge...

Telescope observations and celestial novelties of the early seventeenth century impacted not only in astronomy and science but in many other fields of culture, philosophy, and art. But what consequences did the telescope have to astrology, the body of knowledge with the closest ties to astronomy? Curiously, very little research has been made on this topic and current opinion seems to assume that astrology continued to be practised following much of the same premises it had for the previous centuries. In this paper, we present evidence that suggests otherwise: a common astrological judgement of...

Nicolaus Copernicus’s achievements in the field of astronomy are widely known and undisputed, but few people know that he also studied astrology – in his time recognised as a science and a subject of academic lectures. Evidence of this activity, though scarce, is preserved in the margins of one of the popular astrological treatises of the 15 th and 16 th centuries, which was owned by Nicolaus Copernicus. Thanks to these marginal notes it is possible to undertake a consideration of the scale and reasons for the involvement of the astronomer in the exploration of astrology.

technical knowledge, but rather as a participative act, a multi-sensorial dialogue with certain dynamic presences, visible and invisible, that draw us bodily into relationship. Embodied in the moment of engagement with its symbols such an astrology, it is suggested, may serve as a dynamic interaction through which a person’s inherent relationship with the cosmos might reveal itself. I aim to develop the hypothesis that an embodied astrology, understood as a form of reciprocated experiential exchange, may be capable of revealing powerful truths, laded with value for those who experience them. F...

Ibraham ibn Ezra (Tudela, 1089/1092-1164/1167) was the most important writer of scientific treatises in Hebrew in the twelfth century; prior to him and his predecessor, Abraham bar Hiyya (d. after 1136), Arabic was the only language of scientific knowledge among Jews. After Ibn Ezra’s work, Hebrew became a language of science, and eventually of research, among the Jews of the Iberia Peninsula and Europe. This fact makes Ibn Ezra’s language, his choice of technical terms, and his linguisticagenda fascinating subjects that deserve more attention than received so far. Our purpose in this article ...

Th e development of oral preaching and the genre of sermon in seventeenth-century Russia was primarily brought about by Ruthenian authors infl uenced by the Latin tradition, e.g., Ioannikiy Galyatovsky, Lazar Baranovych and Simeon Polotsky. Th ese authors incorporated their general knowledge of cosmology, astronomy and astrology into their homilies, which present a valuable insight into the intellectual background of the period through the prism of cosmological elements used mostly as parts of rhetoric constructions. While the functions of the particular elements of natural philosophy varied ...

Paratextual elements in manuscripts often offer surprising clues as to the different stages of transmission a particular copy has undergone. Take, for instance, the sü leymaniye library Ayasofya Collection ms 2595, a thirteenth-century Persian translation of a popular medieval illustrated star catalogue, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib (The Book of Constellations of Fixed stars), produced originally in Arabic in the tenth century by ʿAbd al-rahman al-sufi (d. 986).1 several marks on the title page and colophon of the manuscript reveal information about its date of composition as well as the subsequent ...

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)ContentsI. IntroductionII. Kalyana (parapegma)III. Curtius Rufus (new moon months; paksas)IV. Philostratus (planetary weekdays)V. lAbd al-Bari'VI. Sasanians (naksatras; planetary chords; decans; Zik i Shahriyaran).VII. Severus Sebokht (lunar nodes)VIII. Theophilus of Edessa (military astrology; zodiacal topothesia)IX. Mâshâ'allâh ("Era of the Flood"; planetary chords; cosmic magnet; navams'as)X. Zij al-Sindhind (Kalpa; Caturyuga; mean motions; year-length; sidereal zodiac; trepidation; longitudes of apoge...

In the first half of the 17th century, Dutch astronomers rapidly abandoned the practice of astrology. By the second half of the century, no trace of it was left in Dutch academic discourse. This abandonment, in its early stages, does not appear as the result of criticism or skepticism, although such skepticism was certainly known in the Dutch Republic and leading humanist scholars referred to Pico’s arguments against astrological predictions. The astronomers, however, did not really refute astrology, but simply stopped paying attention to it, as other questions (in particular the constitution ...

ABSTRACT:Sefer ha-Kolel ("The Comprehensive Book") is a forty-chapter compendium, composed by an anonymous scholar in the mid-thirteenth century. It is devoted exclusively to astronomical and astrological knowledge and appears to be the earliest Hebrew work to cover all the branches of medieval astrology in a single composition. Its surviving chapters (Chapters 32–40) are comprised of long quotations borrowed from astronomical and astrological literature already available to Hebrew readers in the mid-thirteenth century. The present study offers an in-depth examination of the last five chapters...

ion from which all horoscopes are derived. T'his addition of the zodiacal signs integrates vibration with structure. We now recognize that the application of thirty degrees of each sign to the thirty degrees of each house represents a charging of stru.cture with vibratory life just as a house becomes a home when it is used as a habitation by people and a violin becomes a musical instrument when it is

Main ambition of the Astrology and Arts project is the interdisciplinary presentation of current state of astrological reflection of reality and searching for its possible parallels in non-discursive symbolism of contemporary arts and music, mainly of neo-conceptual orientation.

This chapter argues that Ptolemy maintains the epistemology and scientific method that he articulates in Almagest 1.1 and applies in the Harmonics in his studies of astrology and cosmology in the Tetrabiblos and Planetary Hypotheses. Both Ptolemy's astrology and his cosmology rely on astronomy. Indeed, Ptolemy suggests that their very study depends on an antecedent and complete examination of the stars' movements and configurations. The conclusions astrology and cosmology put forward, however, remain conjectural, and Ptolemy remarks in both the Tetrabiblos and Planetary Hypotheses on the conje...

In addition to celestial omens which are documented, at least for lunar eclipses, as early as the Old Babylonian period, a number of other texts attest to Mesopotamian interest in celestial phenomena and in the stars and their influence upon the sublunar world. Although far from being developed into an astrology as we know it from the Greeks, astral influence was sought in various areas of Mesopotamian science. The haruspex turned to the stars asking that they place reliable omens in the exta of the lamb, and there are also some indications that parts of the exta examined for divinatory purpos...

Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Introduction 1. From Athens to Augsburg 2. Mathematics and the Sacred 3. The Flood 4. The Campaign against Superstition 5. Confessional Constellations 6. Fate and Faith 7. Centrifugal Forces Postscript Literature Index

The popularity of astrology in Elizabethan England is reflected by the large number of references to it in the works of William Shakespeare. The majority of astrological references in the Shakespearean canon are "commonplaces" and do not add significantly to our understanding of his work, although they are of interest in studying exactly how much astrological knowledge he possessed. There are astrological references in the plays, however, that are of significance in the study of character in Shakespeare. In certain plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale) a judgement concerning various indi...

Last spring, with the world at war and the front pages of the newspapers reserved for major events, Calif ornians in general probably did not know how close their Legislature came to making them a laughing stock among the states. At that time Assembly Bill No. 1793 was introduced, which, if passed, would have made the practice of astrology legal in California. By establishing a State Board of Astrological Examiners with the power to grant licenses to persons over twenty-five years of age who had studied the subject for five years, California would have placed astrology, defined as "the study, ...

Aimed at laypersons, this reference contains over 750 alphabetically arranged entries ranging from one paragraph to several pages. Users can access information on the vocabulary of astrology, signs of the zodiac, chart-casting, astrological systems of other countries, people (past and present) involved in astrology and the branches, theories and influences of astrology. Entries include: Evangeline Adams; age of aquarius; agricultural astrology; Saint Thomas Aquinas; Christianity and astrology; day horoscope; Egyptian astrology; gemstones; Icarus; Julian Day; local mean time; newspaper astrolog...

Concerning astrology, Albert the Great made two major contributions, one undoubtedly authentic, the other questionably so. First, he articulated astrology’s natural-philosophical foundations in his authentic Aristotle commentaries and related works. When I say “foundations”, I do not mean just a passage here or there; rather, for Albert, celestial influences (and thus astrology) are woven into the very heart of Aristotelian natural knowledge, appearing in central processes of nature in several fundamental works, including his paraphrase commentaries on Aristotle’s De caelo and De generatione e...

Abstract Astrology meets a large success in our societies, from the private to the political sphere as well as in the media, in spite of the demonstrated inaccuracy of its psychological as well as operational predictions. We analyse here the relations between astrology and astronomy, as well as the criticisms opposed by the latter to the former. We show that most of these criticisms are weak. Much stronger ones emerge from the analysis of the astrological practice compared to the scientific method, leading us to conclude to the non-scientificity of astrology. Then we return to the success of a...

T H E stars had not been obliterated, for ancient man, by artificial lighting; he was closer to them physically as well as spiritually. In the present volume Professor Hans Georg Gundel, following a suggestion by his late distinguished father, Wilhelm Gundel, analyses the cosmic, astral, and astrological lore of the Greek magical papyri. The material is discussed, in the first part of the book, with reference to the sun, moon, planets, and fixed stars. In the second part there is a review of astrological theories and techniques. The volume ends with a concordance of the sources in Preisendanz,...

Nec, si rationem siderum ignoret, poetas iniellegat said Quintilian of Γ ραμματική; and in the history of scholarship during the last two centuries there is much to confirm his sentence. The elements of astronomy were once part of a scholar's ordinary equipment, and astronomical allusions in the poets, if expounded at all and not left by the editor to the knowledge and intelligence of the reader, were usually expounded aright. The first three lines of Lucan's seventh book are briefly but correctly explained by the scholiast, and Oudendorp so late as 1728 was content to quote his explanation: t...

Origen’s discussion of astrology in Philocalia 23 – usually considered as an odd jumble of exegetical considerations – provides a key to understanding his position on many contemporary Alexandrian debates: the distinction between divination and prophecy, the question of human free will, and the reception of astrology in Ptolemy’s own city. This article will argue that Origen provides the first distinctly Christian treatment of the subject by embedding Greco-Roman philosophical discussion of the questions of free will and foreknowledge into the framework of scriptural exegesis. In doing so, he ...

A humorous book for cat-owners, and a sequel to "Yoga for Cats". It offers an astrological guide to character, lifestyle and personal relationships, and advice to help a cat make the right decisions for health, wealth, long life and happiness.

The story of astrology is traced from its pre-Greek roots through the medieval and Renaissance European tradition to its revival in the past century, culminating in recent research and theories. The book contains a primer of key principles and methods of modern astrology.

This defence of astrology is written by a self-confessed believer of astrology. It discusses the history and principles of astrology by refuting the numerous objections against it, surveying the evidence of astrology, chronicling how this evidence has provoked lies and double standards from the scientific community and concludes that the case for astrology is irrefutable. The book argues that astrology has two central premises - that correlations exist between celestial and terrestrial events and that correspondences exist between the positions of the planets at birth and the human personality...

. Astrology meets a large success in our societies, from the private to the political sphere as well as in the media, in spite of the demonstrated inaccuracy of its psychological as well as operational predictions. We analyse here the relations between astrology and astronomy, as well as the criticisms opposed by the latter to the former. We show that most of these criticisms are weak. Much stronger ones emerge from the analysis of the astrological practice compared to the scientific method, leading us to conclude to the non-scientificity of astrology. Then we return to the success of astrology,...

The idea that the destiny of mankind is somehow linked to the stars goes back over 2500 years. A powerful force in the intellectual life of Greece and Rome, astrology was condemned to near-extinction by the rise of Christianity, but was reawakened in the Middle Ages and come to permeate philosophy, literature and art. Always liable to be debased and manipulated, the principles of astrology were nevertheless for many centuries an accepted facet of religious and scientific thought and daily life. This history of astrology ranges from earliest times to the present day. It looks at the interaction...

This is a statement by 192 scientists, including 19 Nobel Prize winners, who call the "science" of astrology a deception based on "magic and superstition".

Some supporters of astrology claim that various areas of science are really astrology in disguise. For example an astrological principle is that "celestial-terrestrial correlations exist", therefore any area is astrological if it involves things like biological clocks, bird migration, bee navigation, weather and earthquakes, as well as notions such as the Gaia hypothesis and Grand Unification theories in physics. But such things are irrelevant to what astrologers actually do. To describe them as astrological is to claim that modern astrology is scientific when in fact it is quite the opposite....

While the Torah instructs Jews not to practice soothsaying or divination, the Talmud includes several discussions about the power of astrology with many Rabbis even arguing that the use of astrology is both permitted and meaningful. Add to this discrepancy the numerous astrological mosaics on the floors of ancient synagogues, as well as certain Kabbalistic practices, and it becomes clear why there is confusion within the Jewish community. This article examines Jewish perspectives on evolutionary astrology throughout Jewish history and its link to current mystical applications.

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ASTROLOGY SINCE ANTIQUITY A History of Western Astrology, ii: The Medieval and Modern Worlds. Nicholas Campion (Continuum, London, 2009). Pp. xx + 371. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-84725-224-1.Johannes Kepler - not known for philosophical timidity or fabulous wealth - famously described astrology as "a foolish daughter" whose "wise mother", astronomy, would go hungry without her. 'The salaries of mathematicians are so seldom and small", Kepler complained, "that the mother would certainly starve if the daughter did not earn anything". Yet Kepler's famous grumble features a telling twist. Fro...

Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Introduction 1. From Athens to Augsburg 2. Mathematics and the Sacred 3. The Flood 4. The Campaign against Superstition 5. Confessional Constellations 6. Fate and Faith 7. Centrifugal Forces Postscript Literature Index

This book follows a familiar Princeton pattern: a disciple of D.W. Robertson takes over an area to which that professor's principles have not yet been applied in this case Chaucer's astrological passages and provides a moral or philosophical interpretation supplemented, if not always supported, by a generous selection of plates; though those in the present book (apart from the two zodiacs from a Vatican MS, and the Crucifix and Balance from the Wellcome and Casanatense Libraries) will be known to most medievalists. As with other studies from this school, one may be doubtful about the conclusio...