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Monday, January 02, 2006

Whether science or sorcery, astrology influenced history

With journalistic pundits discredited lately as too often on the take, shouldn't we approach this New Year's window of prognostication from another angle?

Didn't the planetary maps of Regiomontanus aid Columbus?

"Astrology is the oldest of the occult sciences," explains independent historian Benson Bobrick in The Fated Sky, his robust, fact-filled account of the subject, but "is also the origin of science itself," with progeny as diverse as astronomy and botany.
Prof. Hex at 3:49 PM
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