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Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800 - I. Medieval Structures (1250-1500): Conceptual, Institutional, Socio-Political, Theologico-Religious and Cultural (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800 - I. Medieval Structures (1250-1500): Conceptual, Institutional, Socio-Political, Theologico-Religious and Cultural (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the
Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for
understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from
legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the
changing roles of astrology in Western science, theology, and
culture from 1250 to 1500. The author considers both the how and
the why. He analyzes and integrates a broad range of sources. This
analysis shows that the history of astrology-in particular, the
story of the protracted criticism and ultimate removal of astrology
from the realm of legitimate knowledge and practice-is crucial for
fully understanding the transition from premodern
Aristotelian-Ptolemaic natural philosophy to modern Newtonian
science. This removal, the author argues, was neither obvious nor
unproblematic. Astrology was not some sort of magical nebulous
hodge-podge of beliefs. Rather, astrology emerged in the 13th
century as a richly mathematical system that served to integrate
astronomy and natural philosophy, precisely the aim of the "New
Science" of the 17th century. As such, it becomes a fundamentally
important historical question to determine why this promising
astrological synthesis was rejected in favor of a rather different
mathematical natural philosophy-and one with a very different
causal structure than Aristotle's.
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