In A companion to astrology in the Renaissance, ed. Picturing the stars: Astrological imagery in the Latin west, 1100–1550. Astrologische Bilder in Mittelalter und Renaissance. The planets were seen as soul-bearing entities serving as intermediaries between the upper and the lower world (Zambelli 2012).īlume, Dieter. Arabic handbooks were systematically translated into Latin. In the twelfth century, there was an intensive involvement with astrological matters. Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Monica Juneia, Alfried Wiecorek, and Christoph Lind, 97–101. Unsterne, Prognostiken und Wetterzauber in der Renaissance. John (chapters 6 and 12) where an earthquake, a darkened sun, a blood red moon, and falling stars are announcing the Last Day (Schenk. A central role plays the text of the Revelation of St. Judicial astrology deals with the stars’ influence on human fate. Natural astrology treats the relation between the movements of the celestial bodies and natural phenomena on Earth such as earthquakes, floods, or weather changes. Since antiquity, a distinction has been made between natural and judicial astrology. Observing the starry sky and in particular the movements of the planets (Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter) and their relations to the zodiac signs (Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Lion, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius), it was hoped to discover relations to events on Earth and to be able to predict and control catastrophes. Leiden: Brill, 2014, Heitzmann 2008).Īstrology considers the stars’ influence on humans and life on Earth. In late antiquity, the seven liberal arts were canonized as the seven basic fields of study, among them astronomy, whereby the terms “astrology” and “astronomy” were widely used parallel and as synonyms (Dooley.
The oldest representation of the starry sky probably is the Nebra sky disk, dated to the Bronze Age (around 2100–1700 BC).
Astrology or the science of the observation of the heaven has ancient roots which can be traced back to the oldest history of mankind, but has been practiced by ancient Greeks and Romans, too.
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