Item #61214 Astrology, Science and Society. Patrick CURRY, authors.

Astrology, Science and Society.

Suffolk, UK / Wolfeboro, NH: The Boydell Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 302pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine, b&w illustrations. List of illustrations, bibliography. A collection of essays that evolved out of a conference held at the Warburg Institute, London, in March 1984, on the history of medieval and Renaissance astrology in Europe. Contents: Introduction by Patrick Curry; Medieval Concepts of Celestial Influence: a Survey by J. D. North; Peter of Abano and Astrology by Graziella Federici Vescovini; Astrology at the English Court in the Later Middle Ages by Hilary M. Carey; The True Place of Astrology in Medieval Science and Philosophy: Towards a Definition by Richard Lemay; Nicole Oresme's Polemic Against Astrology, in Quodlibeta by Stefano Caroti; Towards a Political Iconology of the Copernican Revolution by Keith Hutchison; Astrology in Kepler's Cosmology by J. V. Field; Metoposcopy : an Art to Find the Mind's Construction in the Forehead by Angus G. Clarke; The Revealing Process of Translation and Criticism in the History of Astrology by Jacque E. Halbronn; Newton's Comets and the Transformation of Astrology by Simon Schaffer; Saving Astrology in Restoration England: 'Whig' and 'Tory' Reforms by Patrick Curry; Science and Astrology in Seventeenth Century England: an Unpublished Polemic by John Flamsteed by Michael Hunter. Very light rubbing to cloth, bruising to spine ends - otherwise a tight, clean near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket spine lightly faded, price-clipped with price sticker on inner flap). Item #61214
ISBN: 085115459x

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