Processes for the identification of criminal suspects tell us a great deal about wider cultural assumptions and social prejudices regarding somatic difference; its causes, relative degree, and consequence. If early modern Europeans had something approaching a forensic science, it was astrology, which has recently garnered renewed attention from historians of ideas. Rather than assume astrology's seventeenth-century decline in the face of revolutionary natural philosophy, what follows suggests that English astrology remained significant for mundane bodily discrimination, in the context of both a more deliberate, gradual reform and the tenacity of centuries-old humoral physiology. More importantly, scrutiny of astrological practice, and the logic underpinning its lasting currency, can reveal much about the significance of bodily contrasts and the meanings ascribed to them by Tudor-Stuart folk.
...More
Book
Akasoy, Anna;
Burnett, Charles;
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit;
(2008)
Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West
Book
Popović, Mladen;
(2007)
Reading the Human Body: Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic--Early Roman Period Judaism
Book
Traister, Barbara Howard;
(2001)
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman
Article
Alfonso Paolella;
(2022)
La fisiognomica tra credenza e scienza
Book
Curth, Louise Hill;
(2013)
“A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse”: Equine Medicine in Early Modern England
Article
Gregory, Andrew;
(2014)
William Harvey, Aristotle and Astrology
Article
Brosseder, Claudia;
(2010)
Astrology in Seventeenth-Century Peru
Article
TeixidóGómez, Francisco;
(2000)
Iván de Sorapán de Rieros, Médico, Humanista y Divulgador
Article
Roos, Anna Marie;
(2002)
Israel Hiebner's Astrological Amulets and the English Sigil War
Article
Lanuza-Navarro, T. M.;
(2006)
Medical Astrology in Spain during the Seventeenth Century
Article
Boner, Patrick J.;
(2008)
Kepler's Early Astrological Calendars: Matter, Methodology and Multidisciplinarity
Book
Curth, Louise H.;
(2007)
English Almanacs, Astrology and Popular Medicine: 1550--1700
Article
Lenke, Nils;
Roudet, Nicolas;
(2012)
“Nicolaus Ficke … der sich mit Physiognomie, Astrologie etc. abgab, übrigens ein schlechter Mann war”: Biographische Notizen zum Kepler-Briefpartner Nicolaus von Vicken
Article
Avalos, A.;
(2006)
Astrology and Other Occult Sciences in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Article
Silvia Manzo;
(2023)
Francis Bacon on Self-Care, Divination, and the Nature–Fortune Distinction
Article
Manuela Bragagnolo;
(2016)
Fisiognomica, astrologia e medicina al tempo di Della Porta : la "Fisionomia naturale" di Giovanni Ingegneri (1606)
Article
Regier, Jonathan;
(2014)
Kepler's Theory of Force and His Medical Sources
Book
Phebe Jensen;
Alison A. Chapman;
(2020)
Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar
Article
Kassell, Lauren;
(2014)
Casebooks in Early Modern England: Medicine, Astrology, and Written Records
Article
Craig Martin;
(2022)
Girolamo Cardano’s Meteorological Predictions: Hippocratism, Weather Signs, Winds, and the Limits of Astrology
Be the first to comment!