Astrology and the Seventeenth Century Mind
Author | : Ann Geneva |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Astrologers |
ISBN | : 9780719041549 |
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Author | : Ann Geneva |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Astrologers |
ISBN | : 9780719041549 |
Author | : A. C. Grayling |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620403455 |
The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A.C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world. Grayling vividly reconstructs this unprecedented era and breathes new life into the major figures of the seventeenth century intelligentsia who span literature, music, science, art, and philosophy--Shakespeare, Monteverdi, Galileo, Rembrandt, Locke, Newton, Descartes, Vermeer, Hobbes, Milton, and Cervantes, among many more. During this century, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the world emerged as reason rose to prominence over tradition, and the rights of the individual took center stage in philosophy and politics, a paradigmatic shift that would define Western thought for centuries to come.
Author | : Ryan J. Stark |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813215781 |
Ryan J. Stark presents a spiritually sensitive, interdisciplinary, and original discussion of early modern English rhetoric. He shows specifically how experimental philosophers attempted to disenchant language
Author | : Alexander Cummins |
Publisher | : Hadean Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781907881213 |
In The Starry Rubric, Alexander Cummins shows how astrology and magic offered analysis, interpretation, and solutions - locating humanity in a shifting web of interrelation with the stars and, indeed, the cosmos as a whole. Through analysis and example, Cummins demonstrates the ways in which astrology and magic were crucial to early modern perspectives on human life, time, and meaning.
Author | : Samuel Jeake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Astrology |
ISBN | : 9780191759529 |
Samuel Jeake (1652-1699) was a merchant and nonconformist of Rye in Sussex with an interest in astrology. This work includes the events of his life in detail but subjected them to astrological scrutiny, along with horoscopes. It throws light on the history both of astrology and on the topics: commercial, medical religious, and intellectual.
Author | : Benson Bobrick |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743268954 |
'The Fated Sky' looks at famous figures and important historical events that were influenced by astrology.
Author | : Kris Brandt Riske |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-09-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 073871724X |
The easiest way to learn astrology is to start with yourself. Your astrological birth chart is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of your unique gifts, talents, challenges, and life's purpose. As you begin to decipher the wealth of information in your own birth chart, you'll experience astrology in a personally meaningful way—which makes it easier to understand and remember. Once you learn the basics of astrology, you'll be able to read the birth charts of yourself and others. This friendly guidebook is the most complete introduction to astrology available. Popular astrologer Kris Brandt Riske presents the essentials of astrology in a clear, step-by-step way, paying special attention to three areas of popular interest: relationships, career, and money. She explains the meaning of the planets, zodiac signs, houses, and aspects, and how to interpret their significance in your chart. Over 30 illustrations, including the birth charts of several famous people—Al Gore, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, and Tiger Woods, to name just a few—add a helpful visual dimension to your learning experience. Practical and positive, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Astrology offers techniques for using astrology to identify the qualities you seek in an ideal mate, realize your career and financial potential, calculate your luck, and discover your inner strength.
Author | : Nicholas Campion |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2016-06-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1443895482 |
Astrology is the practice of relating the heavenly bodies to lives and events on earth, and the tradition that has thus been generated. Many cultures worldwide have practised it in some form. In some it is rudimentary, in others complex. Culture and scholarship have categorised it as both belief and science, as a form of magic, divination or religious practice – but in many ways it defies easy categorisation. The chapters in this volume make a significant contribution to our understanding of astrology across a range of periods of cultures. Based on papers presented at the annual conference of the Sophia Centre held in 2012, the contributions range from China and Japan, through India, the ancient Near East, the classical world and early modern Europe, to Madagascar and Mesoamerica. The different topics include ritual and religion, magic and science, calendars and time, and questions of textual transmission and methodology. Astrology in Time and Place is essential reading for all interested in the history of humanity’s relationship with the cosmos.
Author | : Bernard Capp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Almanacs, English |
ISBN | : 9780571241910 |
Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Professor Capp's fascinating book (Faber, 1979) is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the characteristics of both pocket encyclopaedia and sermon, they conveyed information and/or moral commentary on such diverse topics as attitudes to rich and poor, agriculture, gardening, weights and measures, food , drink, sex, sleep, dress, bodily cleanliness, games, fairs, holidays, the weather, the state of the roads, posts, freemasonry, omens, witchcraft, will-making and even the sale of wives - in addition to making dramatic astrological prophecies about the likelihood of plague, famine and war in the year ahead.