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OverviewThis book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the changing roles of astrology in Western science, theology, and culture from 1250 to 1500. The author considers both the how and the why. He analyzes and integrates a broad range of sources. This analysis shows that the history of astrology—in particular, the story of the protracted criticism and ultimate removal of astrology from the realm of legitimate knowledge and practice—is crucial for fully understanding the transition from premodern Aristotelian-Ptolemaic natural philosophy to modern Newtonian science. This removal, the author argues, was neither obvious nor unproblematic. Astrology was not some sort of magical nebulous hodge-podge of beliefs. Rather, astrology emerged in the 13th century as a richlymathematical system that served to integrate astronomy and natural philosophy, precisely the aim of the “New Science” of the 17th century. As such, it becomes a fundamentally important historical question to determine why this promising astrological synthesis was rejected in favor of a rather different mathematical natural philosophy—and one with a very different causal structure than Aristotle's. Full Product DetailsAuthor: H Darrel RutkinPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Volume: 55 Weight: 1.069kg ISBN: 9783030107789ISBN 10: 3030107787 Pages: 515 Publication Date: 09 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPart 1: Conceptual Structure (1): Astrology and Natural Philosophy/Science: Reconstructing a 13th-Century Astrologizing Aristotelianism (1250-80) Introduction to Part 1: Astrology and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Chapter 1: Ligamentum naturalis philosophiae et metaphysicae: Astrology and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Chapter 2: Mathematizing the Picture: Mathematics, Perspectiva and Astrology in Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus Chapter 3: Albertus Magnus on the Natural Philosophical Foundations for Revolutions Intermezzo Chaper 4: Defending Astrology: Roger Bacon and the Speculum astronomiae Part 2: Conceptual Structures (2): Astrology and Theology/Religion Introduction to part 2: Astrology and Theology Chapter 5: Astrology and Theology in Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas: Fate, Divination and Providence Chapter 6: Astrology, Theology and Religion in Roger Bacon Part 3: Conceptual Structures (3): Astrology and Magic Introduction to part 3: Astrology and Magic Chapter 7: Imagines astronomicae (talismans) in the Speculum astronomiae, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas Chapter 8: Opera et verba sapientiae: Astrology and Magic in Roger Bacon Part 4: Institutional, Scocio-Political and Cultural Structures: Universities, Cities and Courts (1300-1500) Introduction to part 4: Astrology, Mathematics and Humanism Chapter 9: Disciplinary Configurations: Astrology and the Mathematical Disciplines Chapter 10: Institutional Foundations: The Universities Chapter 11: Astrology in Society, Politics and Culture Conclusion to I: The Annus Mirabilis of 1484: Towards Renaissance Astrology and MagicReviewsDarrel Rutkin is a leading expert on medieval astrology. This fascinating book, the first stone of an ambitious edifice, provides many fundamental elements for understanding the place of astrology in the philosophical, theological, and scientific worldviews of the Middle Ages. The reader is often led to see the question from unexpected angles and is thus strongly stimulated in his thought. (Nicolas Weill-Parot, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 53 (2), 2022) Author InformationA historian of science with a focus on the role of astrology in premodern Western science and culture ca. 1250-1800, H Darrel Rutkin took his PhD at Indiana University in 2002. After a series of splendid postdoctoral fellowships and visiting professorships, he is now Associate Professor (Ricercatore) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia in the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali (2018-2021). He has also contributed to the Cambridge History of Science and the Harvard Companion to the Classical Tradition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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