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England : 'Whig' and 'Tory' reforms / Patrick Curry -- Science and astrology in seventeenth century England : an unpublished polemic by John Flamsteed / Michael Hunter |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.
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Astrology -- History.
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103360
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Europe -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Curry, Patrick, 1951-
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Warburg Institute.
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LC no. |
86023304 |
ISBN |
085115459X |
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