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Title Astrology, science, and society : historical essays / edited by Patrick Curry
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Wolfeboro, N.H. : Boydell Press, 1987

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Description ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 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England : 'Whig' and 'Tory' reforms / Patrick Curry -- Science and astrology in seventeenth century England : an unpublished polemic by John Flamsteed / Michael Hunter
Analysis Western Europe Astrology 1200-1700
Notes "Evolved out of a conference held at the Warburg Institute, London, in March 1984, on the history of medieval and Renaissance astrology in Europe"--Acknowledgments
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Astrology -- History -- Congresses.
Astrology -- History.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103360
Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Curry, Patrick, 1951-
Warburg Institute.
LC no. 86023304
ISBN 085115459X