...This chapter provides the text and translation for Book V of Augustine's The City of God, which begins with a discussion of fate that condemns the predictions of the astrologers, particularly their claim to foretell the future from the position of the stars. It looks at Augustine's...

...This article focuses on astrologers and magicians in Roman society, who both provided specialized skills and services that gave them a considerable degree of social power and popularity. This article also shows that these two groups were also restricted to the margins of polite society, and were...

...This chapter proposes that Ovid’s felices animae (F. 1. 295-310) are not astronomers, philosophers, or apolitical scientists as is commonly understood by modern commentators, but Augustan astrologers. It contends that the tone and content of this dazzling encomium are informed...

... to recognize that Velikovsky was neither an able astronomer nor a historian, but somehow he managed to convince a publisher of his credibility. Babylonian astrologers Deluge Genesis Revelation of Saint John Velikovsky affair Yucatan astrology biblical catastrophes dark age 95 W HEN in 1980 Luis...

...This chapter discusses astrology and the religious and intellectual problems that plagued it. First it delves into astrology's compatibility with Christian theology, particularly with doctrines such as the omniscience of God and the responsibility of individual human beings for their own behavior...

...Graph 5.1 German annual practicas, 1531–1630. Figure 5.1 Title page from Christoph Stathmion’s Astrologia Asserta (Nuremberg, 1558). Courtesy of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Astr.p.166. The Wittenberg-led program of astrologically based order was essentially...

...This chapter discusses the role of astrology in Jewish medicine, which was another field of great significance for therapeutics. The Bible exhorted Israel not to fear 'portents in the sky' that caused the pagans to tremble. While they rejected the speculations of astrologers of other nations...

.... This practice became known as the “Barnum effect”—named after the famous showman. The name hoped to stigmatize pseudo-clinical procedures, where personality descriptions from tests are made to fit the patient by virtue of their triviality. This practice proved true for deceitful astrological charlatans, as well...

... understanding of human reproduction may seem ‘soft’, a common if not dominant view was that complexions were both innate, enduring, and, in a fundamental way, inherited. Published reckonings of professional astrologers such as William Lilly and John Gadbury; the carefully scripted, autobiographical calculations...

...This chapter begins by examining the influences of astronomy on man's intellectual life. It then discusses the pressures encountered by astrology at the beginning of the fourteenth century. It then shows some of the ‘naive’ religious anxieties introduced to the Oxford scene by the astrologers. Next...

...0 06 11 2008 Plotinus’ own writings also testify to this interest. One of the first works he wrote, Enneads 3. 1 [6], is a treatise on fate which criticizes astrologers’ claims alongside other deterministic systems. Some time later, he devoted a lengthy section of a long treatise on the soul...

...0 06 03 2003 Every day, in newspapers all around the world, astrologers tell people what life has in store for them. Under each of the star signs, which go with birthdates, there is a short message telling, say, Taureans to take special care in financial matters or Librans to expect progress...