The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology
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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Some preliminary remarks on astrology 2. Astrology and late medieval academic culture. Louvain, 1425-1516. 3. Between astrological reform and rejection: Giovanni Pico's Disputations (1494) 4. Humanism and court astrology: the 1524 conjunctions at Louvain 5. Astrology and the Louvain cosmographical tradition Intermezzo. A few comments on the use and nature of astrological reform 6. Copernican astronomy and Louvain astrology 7. Ptolemy, parapegmata, mathematics, and monsters. The reform of mundane astrology 8. Prorogations, houses, and natal astrology Conclusion Bibliography Indices
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- Philosophy
- Arts and Humanities
- Art
- Astrology
- Literature
- Archeology
- Theology
- Physical Sciences
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
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- Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- The Renaissance
- Humanism
- Ptolemy's table of chords
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