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 physical phenomena, and included psychology and ethics within its scope.
This volume traces the development of medieval conceptions of astrology from...