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Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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