In the Florentine basilica of San Miniato al Monte is a thirteenth-century marble zodiac. Over many years Fred Gettings unravelled the mysteries of its construction. In this book, originally published in 1987, he shows that the church was designed a...Loe edasi...
The Star-Crossed Renaissance (1941) examines the attitude of the thinkers of Renaissance England toward astrology, Was Shakespeare, for example, a believer in astrology? This book provides a comprehensive and thoroughly-researched answer....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Nov-2021, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003093299)
This book critically examines the larger world of astrology in India, its ubiquity and relationship with religion, and its impact on economy, gender, class, religion, and caste....Loe edasi...
Contains papers which deal with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries. This book provides a survey of the social history of the exact sciences in al-Andalus, and looks at ast...Loe edasi...
Gunther Oestmann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad
Sari: Religion and Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2005, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110925128)
This volume examines the specific role of horoscopic astrology in Western culture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. The volumes three parts address the use of imperial horoscopes in late antiquity, the transformation of doctrines and rhetor...Loe edasi...
Magic and divination in early Islam encompassed a wide range of practices. The studies here are concerned with the pre-Islamic antecedents of such practices and with the theory of magic in healing, the nature and use of amulets and the arts of astro...Loe edasi...
Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest....Loe edasi...
This is the first book in any language that attempts to make an academic study of three sophisticated devices known as sanshi, used in the Chinese astronomical bureau in the 11th century....Loe edasi...
This is a collection of articles from various journals on the history of astronomy and astrology in the Medieval Islamic world. They look at subjects such as: Ibn al-Haythams determination of the meridian from one solar altitude, and an astrologica...Loe edasi...
An account of astrology from its beginnings in Mesopotamia, focusing on the Greco-Roman world, Ancient Astrology examines the theoretical development and changing social and political role of astrology....Loe edasi...
