Astrology

 

 

 

 

Recent Publications

 

 

1

 Paola Zambelli (ed.),

'Astrologi hallucinati' : Stars and the End of the World in Luther's Time.

Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1986.

 

 

2

Patrick Curry (ed.),

Astrology, Science and Society : Historical Essays.

Woodbridge, Boydell, 1987.

 

 

3

S.J. Tester,

A History of Western Astrology.

New York, Ballantine, 1987.

 

 

4

G.F. Vescovini & F. Barocelli (eds.),

Filosofia, scienza e astrologia nel Trecento europeo.

Padova, Poligrafo, 1992.

 

 

 5

Charles Burnett, Kenji Yamamoto & Michio Yano (eds.),

Abu Masar : The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology.

Leiden, Brill, 1994.

 

 

6

Kenji Yamamoto & Charles Burnett (eds.),

Abu Masar on Historical Astrology : The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions).

Leiden, Brill, 2000.

 

 

7

Tabitta Van Nouhuys,

The Age of Two-Faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands

Leiden, Brill, 1993.

 

 

8

Steven Vanden Broecke,

The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology.

Leiden, Brill, 2003.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 Astrological Medicine or Iatromathematics

 

 

Lynn Thorndike,

"The Three Latin Translations of the Pseudo-Hippocratic Tract on Astrological Medicine,"

Janus, 49 (1960), pp. 104-129.

 

 

Giancarlo Zanier,

La medicina astrologica e la sua teoria : Marsilio Ficino e i suoi critici contemporanei.

 Rome, Ateneo, 1977.

 

 

Felix Klein-Franke,

Iatromathematics in Islam : A Study on Yuhanna Ibn as-Salt's Book on Astrological Medicine.

Hildesheim, Olms, 1984.

 

 

Wolf-Dieter Mueller-Jahncke,

Astrologische-magische Theorie und Praxis in der Heilkunde der fruehen Neuzeit.

Stuttgart, Steiner, 1985.

 

 

Danielle Jacquart,

"Médecine et Astrologie à Paris dans la première moitié du XIVe siècle,"

in G. F. Vescovini et F. Barocelli (eds.), Filosofia, scienza e astrologia nel Trecento europeo.

Padoue, 1992, pp. 121-134.

 

 

    Danielle Jacquart,

"L'influence des astres sur le corps humain chez Pietro d'Abano,"

in B. Ribemont (ed. ), Le corps et ses énigmes au Moyen Age.

Caen, 1993, pp. 73-86.

 

 

Roger French,

"Astrology in medical Practice,"

in L. Garcia-Ballester et al. (eds. ), Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death.

Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1994, pp. 30-59.

 

 

 


 

 

Cosmological Generality

 

 

S. Unguru (ed.),

Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300-1700.

Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1991.

 

 

Edward Grant,

Planets, Stars, and Orbs : The Medieval Cosmos, 1200-1687.

Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1994.

 

 

 


 

 

Classics for the History of Astrology

 

 

 E. Reiss,

l'art. "Astrologie,"

in Realencyclopaedie. Stuttgart, 1892, t. II-2, cols. 1802-1828.

 

 

A. Bouche-Leclercq,

L'astrologie grecque.

Paris, E. Leroux, 1899.

 

 

Franz Cumont,

Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans.

New York, Dover, 1912.

 

 

 Franz Cumont,

L'Egypte des astrologues.

Bruxelles, 1937.

 

 

 A-J. Festugiere,

La révélation d'Hermès Trismégiste.

4vols. Paris, 1942-1954.

 

 

Pierre Duhem,

Le système du monde : histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic.

10 vols. Paris, 1913-1959.

 

 

Lynn Thorndike,

A History of Magic and Experimental Science.

8 vols. New York, 1923-1958.

 

 

Lynn Thorndike,

Sphere of Sacrobosco and its Commentators.

Chicago, Chicago UP, 1949.

 

 

Richard Lemay,

Abu Ma 'Shar and Latin Aristotelianism in the Twelfth Century : The Recovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy through Arabic Astrology.

 Beirut, 1962.

 

 

Thomas Litt,

Les corps celestes dans l'univers de Saint Thomas d'Aquin.

Louvain, 1963.

 

 

 

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