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astrology the study of movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world. Ancient observers of the heavens developed elaborate systems of explanation based on the movements of the sun, moon, and planets through the constellations of the zodiac, for predicting events and for casting horoscopes. By 1700 astrology had lost intellectual credibility in the West, but continued to have popular appeal. Modern astrology is based on that of the Greeks, but other systems are extant, e.g. that of China.
The term (in full
natural astrology) originally denoted the practical uses of astronomy, applied in the measurement of time and the prediction of natural phenomena. The commonest sense today (in full
judicial astrology, relating to human affairs) dates from the mid 16th century.
The word is recorded from late Middle English, and comes ultimately (via Old French and Latin) from Greek
astron ‘star’.
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Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Roy Willis and Patrick Curry. Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down...justify a particular version of Western astrology, and to make academic study of that...conjectural history. He ties the beginnings of astrology to the dawn of human consciousness...
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/9/1994; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 6/8/2008; ; 700+ words
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THIS ASTROLOGY SHINES DIFFERENT LIGHT INTO PERSONALITY
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/17/2000; 700+ words
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Studying astrology and distant galaxies.(BOOKS)(SCIENCE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/4/2006; 700+ words
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Summus Chooses Astrology.com for Wireless Horoscope Content.
PR Newswire; 11/11/2002; 700+ words
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Galileo's Astrology.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
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Signs are astrology's star is once more rising
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 5/25/2004; ; 700+ words
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Stars Above!: Astrology is ascending, which is bad news.(some seek to include astrology in school curriculum)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/9/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...without a trace as risen without a trace: Astrology can now be studied, for a bachelor...a 900-page Ph.D. dissertation on astrology, in which she makes it plain that she...sociologist who has read it, is: "that astrology is the victim of domination. That science...
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Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...claimed that modern science destroyed astrology by discrediting its intellectual foundations...newspaper. The resilience and longevity of astrology, "springing up afresh after every apparent...For him, the issue is not so much astrology's plausibility, but understanding...
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Astrology
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
ASTROLOGY ASTROLOGY. Defining early modern astrology is a thorny issue. The early modern distinction between "natural" and "judicial" astrology, still widely used among scholars, served to express moral and religious qualifications. Hence...
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astrology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
astrology form of divination based on the theory...planets and stars. The practices of astrology spread throughout the ancient Middle...intervention and free will, interest in astrology subsided, although astrologers continued...
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Dudith (Duditius), Andreas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Poland], 23 February 1589) astronomy, astrology, mathematics . Andreas Dudith combined...Although originally interested in the astrology of the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, Dudith...influence of Erastus in its rejection of astrology as a vain pseudoscience. Both Dudith...
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Abū Maʿshar Al-Balkhī, Jaʿfar Ibn Muḥammad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...i ṭ , Iraq, 9 March 886) astrology. The ancient city of Balkh, where Ab...administered because of his practice of astrology, during the caliphate of al-Musta...geometry, music, astronomy, and astrology). It was his urging that made Ab...
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Firmicus Maternus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...b . Sicily, fl. A.D. 330-354) astrology . Our only information about Firmicus...the Mathesis , a popular handbook on astrology, and the De errore profanarum religion...the most comprehensive handbook of astrology to come down to us from antiquity...
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