Astrology in the Middle Ages

by Theodore Otto Wedel

Book Overview

Astrology occupies a prominent place in the history of philosophy and science. Thirteenth-century scholars -- even more than the poets and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome -- regarded the rule of the stars over human destiny as an indisputable fact, entering into their every conception of the universe. Theologians credited the stars with a power second only to that of God. Astrology offered a reasoned explanation of an infinite diversity of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048643642X
• ISBN13: 9780486436425
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.6"