Astrology, science, and society

Boydell Press

1987

ix, 302 p.

9780851154596

Introduction / Patrick Curry --Medieval concepts of celestial influence : a survey / J.D. North --Peter of Abano and astrology / Graziella Federici Vescovini --Astrology at the English court in the later Middle Ages / Hilary M. Carey --The true place of astrology in medieval science and philosophy : towards a definition / Richard Lemay --Nicole Oresme's polemic against astrology, in Quodlibeta / Stefano Caroti --Towards a political iconology of the Copernican revolution / Keith Hutchison --Astrology in Kepler's cosmology / J.V. Field --Metoposcopy : an art to find the mind's construction in the forehead / Angus G. Clarke --The revealing process of translation and criticism in the history of astrology / Jacque E. Halbronn --Newton's comets and the transformation of astrology / Simon Schaffer --Saving astrology in Restoration England : 'Whig' and 'Tory' reforms / Patrick Curry --Science and astrology in seventeenth century England : an unpublished polemic by John Flamsteed / Michael Hunter.

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