The limits of influence : Pico, Louvain, and the crisis of Renaissance astrology / by Steven Vanden Broecke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broecke, Steven Vanden, author.

Series:

History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; Volume 4.

Medieval and early modern science ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astrology, European--History.

Astrology, European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2003]

Summary:

Historians of science often acknowledge the academic status of astrology in the early modern period, but mostly fail to explore its relation with other disciplines and its role in society. This book seeks to fill that gap. The first part of the book examines the practices and functions that shaped late medieval astrology, and relates how its academic status became discredited, both in northern Italy and the Low Countries. The second part of the book examines various counter-strategies of astrological reform, and shows how these ultimately failed to restore public trust in academic astrology. This book provides a new level of detail to the history of astrology. It also establishes important new links with other fields, like the history of universities, humanism, astronomy, medicine, and instrument building.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Some preliminary remarks on astrology

2. Astrology and late medieval academic culture. Louvain, 1425-1516.

3. Between astrological reform and rejection: Giovanni Pico's Disputations (1494)

4. Humanism and court astrology: the 1524 conjunctions at Louvain

5. Astrology and the Louvain cosmographical tradition

Intermezzo. A few comments on the use and nature of astrological reform

6. Copernican astronomy and Louvain astrology

7. Ptolemy, parapegmata , mathematics, and monsters. The reform of mundane astrology

8. Prorogations, houses, and natal astrology

Conclusion

Bibliography

Indices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-304) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-45361-X

OCLC:

1164355641

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004453616 DOI