Astrology
Last update: 03 Oct 1994 12:00First version:
Its history, especially in Hellenistic times, the Renaissance, and (separately) since 1900.
- See also:
- History of Science
- Superstition
- Recommended:
- T. W. Adorno, "The Stars Down to Earth" [Analysis of the Los Angeles Times astrology column and its readers. Actually comprehensible, for a wonder. Translated in Telos in the early '70s, along with "Theses Against Occultism," which are gibberish. --- Now reprinted in a glossy trade paperback from Routledge checking in at just under \$20 at the nearest bookstore, the better to undermine commodity-fetishism and the domination of society by exchange-value.]
- Anthony Grafton, Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
- William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.), Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
- Wayne Shumaker, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance
- David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World
- To read:
- Brendan Dooley, Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics
- N. M. Swerdlow (ed.), Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination
