Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- ASTROLOGY: Ptolemy against the Arabs
- Ist Teil von
- Success and Suppression, 2016, p.248-292
- Ort / Verlag
- Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Astrology, as a practical and theoretical science, saw a remarkable success in fifteenth-to seventeenth-century Europe, a success hardly paralleled in history. Astrological advice was valued by kings and popes, citizens and peasants, the educated and the uneducated, and it was offered by a great range of astrologers, from university teachers to city physicians and mere fortune-tellers. It was common astrological practice to cast horoscopes for the moment of birth of a specific person, to inquire about the best moment for a specificaction, or to formulate a prediction for the general events of the coming year.¹ The influence of astrology was
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0674971582, 9780674971585DOI: 10.4159/9780674973664-009Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt1hch866_11
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anniversaries, Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Arab revolutions, Asian studies, Astrology, Astronomical conjunctions, Astronomical objects, Astronomy, Behavioral sciences, Communications, Communications media, Criminal investigation, Cultural anthropology, Cultural customs, Divination, Ethnography, Ethnology, Folk beliefs, Folk culture, Folkloristics, Government, Government services, Handbooks, Information resources, Information science, Interrogations, Jupiter, Law enforcement, Law enforcement procedures, Magic, Middle Eastern history, Middle Eastern studies, Natural satellites, Outer planets, Physical sciences, Planets, Political science, Print media, Rites of passage, Rituals, Social sciences, Spherical astronomy, Treatises