The limits of influence : : Pico, Louvain, and the crisis of Renaissance astrology / / by Steven Vanden Broecke.

Historians of science often acknowledge the academic status of astrology in the early modern period, but mostly fail to explore its relation with other disciplines and its role in society. This book seeks to fill that gap. The first part of the book examines the practices and functions that shaped l...

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Superior document:Medieval and early modern science ; Volume 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; Volume 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Some preliminary remarks on astrology
  • 2. Astrology and late medieval academic culture. Louvain, 1425-1516.
  • 3. Between astrological reform and rejection: Giovanni Pico's Disputations (1494)
  • 4. Humanism and court astrology: the 1524 conjunctions at Louvain
  • 5. Astrology and the Louvain cosmographical tradition
  • Intermezzo. A few comments on the use and nature of astrological reform
  • 6. Copernican astronomy and Louvain astrology
  • 7. Ptolemy, parapegmata , mathematics, and monsters. The reform of mundane astrology
  • 8. Prorogations, houses, and natal astrology
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Indices.