Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler (Editor)
Burnett, Charles (Editor)
Sophia Centre Press
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
Physical Details: xix, 529 pp.
Astrology has recently become a subject of interest to scholars of the highest calibre. However, the tendency has been to look at the social context of astrology, the attacks on astrologers and their craft, and on astrological iconography and symbolism; i.e., largely looking on astrology from the outside. The intention of this book is to do is to look at the subject from the inside: the ideas and techniques of astrologers themselves. In both Western and Eastern cultures astrology was regarded as a pure science by most scholars, mathematicians, physicians, philosophers and theologians, and was taught in schools and universities. The greatest astronomers of the period under consideration, al-Kindi, Thabit ibn Qurra, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Galileo and Kepler, also wrote about and practised astrology. What did astrologers write about astrology and how did they teach their subject and practise their craft? What changes occurred in astrological theory and practice over time and from one culture to another? What cosmological and philosophical frameworks did astrologers use to describe their practice? What role did diagrams, tables and illustrations play in astrological text-books? What was astrology's place in universities and academies? This book contains surveys of astrologers and their craft in Islamic, Jewish and Christian culture, and includes hitherto unpublished and unstudied astrological texts.
...MoreReview Brendan Dooley (2018) Review of "From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 500-501).
Review Josep Casulleras (2017) Review of "From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology". Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation (pp. 357-361).
Chapter H. Darrel Rutkin (2015) Giuliano Ristori and Filippo Fantoni on Pseudo-Prophets, Great Conjunctions and Other Astrological Effects. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 353-406).
Chapter Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (2015) Kepler’s Personal Astrology: Two Letters to Michael Maestlin. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 177-200).
Chapter Jean-Patrice Boudet (2015) From Baghdad to Civitas Solis: Horoscopes of Foundations of Cities. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 49-76).
Chapter Bernadette Brady (2015) Galileo’s Astrological Philosophy. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 77-100).
Chapter Petra Schmidl (2015) Elections in Medieval Islamic Folk Astronomy. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 425-453).
Chapter Miquel Forcada (2015) Astrology in al-Andalus during the 11th and 12th Centuries: Between Religion and Philosophy. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 149-176).
Chapter Stephan Heilen (2015) Paul of Middelburg’s Prognosticum for the years 1484 to 1504. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 231-278).
Chapter Meira Epstein (2015) Curriculum by Design: Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Texts. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 123-148).
Chapter Julio Samsó (2015) Astrology in Morocco towards the End of the Fourteenth Century and the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 407-424).
Chapter Giuseppe Bezza (2015) Saturn–Jupiter Conjunctions and General Astrology: Ptolemy, Abū Maʿshar and Their Commentators. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 5-48).
Chapter Steven Vanden Broecke (2015) Self-Governance and the Body Politic in Renaissance Annual Prognostications. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 491-512).
Chapter Jan Hogendijk (2015) Al-Bīrūnī on the Computation of Primary Progression (tasyīr). In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 279-307).
Chapter Graeme Tobyn (2015) Dr Reason and Dr Experience: Culpeper’s Assignation of Planetary Rulers in The English Physitian. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 473-490).
Chapter Geoffrey Cornelius (2015) Interpreting Interpretations: The Aphorism in the Practice of the Renaissance Astrologers. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 101-121).
Chapter Robert Hand (2015) Evidence in Bonatti for the Practical Application of Certain Astrological Techniques. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 201-230).
Chapter Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas (2015) Quantitative Concepts in Hellenistic and Medieval Astrology. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 325-352).
Chapter Piergabriele Mancuso (2015) Cosmological Traditions in Judeo-Byzantine South Italy: A Preliminary Analysis. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 309-324).
Chapter Shlomo Sela (2015) Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Interpretation of Astrology according to the Two Versions of the Book of Reasons. In: From Māshāʾallāh to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (pp. 455-471).
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