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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) Loot Price: R3,937
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Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800 - I. Medieval Structures (1250-1500): Conceptual,...

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)

H. Darrel Rutkin

Series: Archimedes, 55

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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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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Archimedes, 55
Release date: May 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: H. Darrel Rutkin
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 515
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-010778-9
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
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LSN: 3-03-010778-7
Barcode: 9783030107789

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