Astrology In The Renaissance

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674095553

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Cardano's Cosmos by Anthony Grafton Pdf

Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano's Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologer's extraordinary career and explore the art and discipline of astrology in the hands of a brilliant practitioner.Renaissance astrologers predicted everything from the course of the future of humankind to the risks of a single investment, or even the weather. They analyzed the bodies and characters of countless clients, from rulers to criminals, and enjoyed widespread respect and patronage. This book traces Cardano's contentious career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his remarkable autobiographical works. Delving into astrological principles and practices, Grafton shows how Cardano and his contemporaries adapted the ancient art for publication and marketing in a new era of print media and changing science. He maps the context of market and human forces that shaped Cardano's practicesâe"and the maneuvering that kept him at the top of a world rife with patronage, politics, and vengeful rivals.Cardano's astrology, argues Grafton, was a profoundly empirical and highly influential art, one that was integral to the attempts of sixteenth-century scholars to understand their universe and themselves.

Author : Eugenio Garin
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 014019259X

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Astrology in the Renaissance by Eugenio Garin Pdf

Author : Monica Azzolini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674070363

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The Duke and the Stars by Monica Azzolini Pdf

This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was a critical source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis. Astrological “intelligence” was often treated as sensitive, and astrologers and astrologer-physicians were often trusted with intimate secrets and delicate tasks that required profound knowledge not only of astrology but also of the political and personal situation of their clients. Two types of astrological predictions, medical and political, were taken into the most serious consideration. Focusing on Milan, Monica Azzolini describes the various ways in which the Sforza dukes (and Italian rulers more broadly) used astrology as a political and dynastic tool, guiding them as they contracted alliances, made political decisions, waged war, planned weddings, and navigated health crises. The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy.

Author : Mary Quinlan-McGrath
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226922850

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Influences by Mary Quinlan-McGrath Pdf

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why educated people of the Renaissance commissioned artworks centered on astrological themes and practices. Influences is the first book to reveal how important Renaissance artworks were designed to be not only beautiful but also—perhaps even primarily—functional. From the fresco cycles at Caprarola, to the Vatican’s Sala dei Pontefici, to the Villa Farnesina, these great works were commissioned to selectively capture and then transmit celestial radiation, influencing the bodies and minds of their audiences. Quinlan-McGrath examines the sophisticated logic behind these theories and practices and, along the way, sheds light on early creation theory; the relationship between astrology and natural theology; and the protochemistry, physics, and mathematics of rays. An original and intellectually stimulating study, Influences adds a new dimension to the understanding of aesthetics among Renaissance patrons and a new meaning to the seductive powers of art.

Author : Brendan Dooley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004262300

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A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance by Brendan Dooley Pdf

It has been called “the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced” (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine, art, and all the other areas of endeavor catalogued in this unique collection. Brill’s Companion to Renaissance Astrology brings together a wide array of expertise from around the globe to explain the method and matter of this cultural form, including the Arab and Classical heritage, the medieval tradition, the clash with organized religion, the influence on knowledge and the competition with newly emerging ways of knowing, summarizing the current state of research and suggesting new paths. Contributors include: Giuseppe Bezza, Dieter Blume, Claudia Brosseder, Brendan Dooley, William Eamon, Ornella Faracovi, Hiro Hirai, Wolfgang Hübner, Eileen Reeves, Steven Vanden Broecke, and Graziella Federici Vescovini.

Author : Eugenio Garin
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015008002811

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Astrology in the Renaissance by Eugenio Garin Pdf

Author : Eugenio Garin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1269231907

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Astrology in the Renaissance by Eugenio Garin Pdf

Author : Don Cameron Allen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 0714610291

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The Star-crossed Renaissance by Don Cameron Allen Pdf

First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Professor Charles Burnett,Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907767061

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From Masha' Allah to Kepler by Professor Charles Burnett,Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum Pdf

Astrology has recently become a subject of interest to scholars of the highest calibre. However, the tendency has been to look at the social context of astrology, the attacks on astrologers and their craft, and on astrological iconography and symbolism; i.e., largely looking on astrology from the outside. The intention of this book is to do is to look at the subject from the inside: the ideas and techniques of astrologers themselves. In both Western and Eastern cultures astrology was regarded as a pure science by most scholars, mathematicians, physicians, philosophers and theologians, and was taught in schools and universities. The greatest astronomers of the period under consideration, al-Kindi, Thabit ibn Qurra, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Galileo and Kepler, also wrote about and practised astrology. What did astrologers write about astrology and how did they teach their subject and practise their craft? What changes occurred in astrological theory and practice over time and from one culture to another? What cosmological and philosophical frameworks did astrologers use to describe their practice? What role did diagrams, tables and illustrations play in astrological text-books? What was astrology's place in universities and academies? This book contains surveys of astrologers and their craft in Islamic, Jewish and Christian culture, and includes hitherto unpublished and unstudied astrological texts.

Author : Eugenio Garin,June Allan,Carolyn Jackson
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140191488

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Astrology in the Renaissance by Eugenio Garin,June Allan,Carolyn Jackson Pdf

Author : Paola Zambelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 1409425142

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Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe by Paola Zambelli Pdf

Deals with theories: the ideas of astrology and magic held by Renaissance thinkers; astrologers' ideas on universal history and its cycles; that is catastrophes and rebirths, theories; and myths regarding the spontaneous generation of man himself. It also focuses on the role of astrologers in Renaissance society.

Author : Steven Broecke, vanden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004453616

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The Limits of Influence by Steven Broecke, vanden Pdf

This is a case study of astrology's changing status as an academic discipline in the sixteenth century. It provides fascinating new insights in the practice of Renaissance astrology, its social position, and its profound impact on the changes in early modern European science.

Author : Peter H. Marshall
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Holy Roman Empire
ISBN : 9780771056918

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The Theatre of the World by Peter H. Marshall Pdf

A captivating portrait of the crucible of magic, science, and religion at the court of the doomed dreamer Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague. At the end of the sixteenth century, the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The Theatre of the World is the enchanting story of Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great talents and minds of his times than in the exercise of his power. Rarely leaving Prague Castle, he gathered around him a galaxy of famous figures: the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the German mathematician Johannes Kepler, and the English magus John Dee. Entranced, like Hamlet, by the new Renaissance learning, Rudolf found it nearly impossible to make decisions. He faced the threats of religious discord and the Ottoman Empire, along with deepening melancholy and an ambitious younger brother. As a result, he lost his empire and nearly his sanity, but he enabled Prague to enjoy a golden age of peace and creativity before Europe was engulfed in the Thirty Years War. "The Theatre of the World" is a beguiling and dramatic human story filled with angels and devils, high art and low cunning, talismans and stars. It offers a captivating perspective on a pivotal moment in the history of Western Civilization. "From the Hardcover edition."

Author : Brendan Maurice Dooley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Astrology
ISBN : OCLC:1241774088

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A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance by Brendan Maurice Dooley Pdf

It has been called "the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced" (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine, art, and all the other areas of endeavor catalogued in this unique collection. Brill's Companion to Renaissance Astrology brings together a wide array of expertise from around the globe to explain the method and matter of this cultural form, including the Arab and Classical heritage, the medieval tradition, the clash with organized religion, the influence on knowledge and the competition with newly emerging ways of knowing, summarizing the current state of research and suggesting new paths. Contributors include: Giuseppe Bezza, Dieter Blume, Claudia Brosseder, Brendan Dooley, William Eamon, Ornella Faracovi, Hiro Hirai, Wolfgang Hübner, Eileen Reeves, Steven Vanden Broecke, and Graziella Federici Vescovini.

Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004442276

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Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance by Ovanes Akopyan Pdf

An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.