Astrology

03 Oct 1994 12:00

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Its history, especially in Hellenistic times, the Renaissance, and (separately) since 1900.

See also:
• History of Science
• Superstition

Recommended:
• T. W. Adorno, "The Stars Down to Earth" [Analysis of the Los Angeles Times astrology column and its readers. Actually comprehensible, for a wonder. Translated in Telos in the early '70s, along with "Theses Against Occultism," which are gibberish. --- Now reprinted in a glossy trade paperback from Routledge checking in at just under \$20 at the nearest bookstore, the better to undermine commodity-fetishism and the domination of society by exchange-value.]
• Anthony Grafton, Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
• William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.), Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
• Wayne Shumaker, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance
• David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World

To read:
• Brendan Dooley, Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics
• N. M. Swerdlow (ed.), Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination