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" Horoscopes and public spheres : "
edited by Guenther Oestmann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad
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BL
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649549
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Horoscopes and public spheres : : essays on the history of astrology /\ edited by Guenther Oestmann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad
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| Publication Statement
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Berlin ;New York :: Walter de Gruyter,, c2005
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| Series Statement
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Religion and society ;; v. 42
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viii, 290 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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3110185458 (cloth cm : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: horoscopes and history -- Horoscopes and the public sphere in antiquity -- What was Agrippina waiting for? -- The Emperor Hadrian in the horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea -- The possible survival of Babylonian astrology in the fifth century CE : a discussion of historical sources -- Medieval astrology : Muslim and Jewish discourse -- Zoroastrian historical astrology -- Circular motions : private pleasure and public prognostication in the nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar -- The horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a cosmological vision in the Islamic world -- Historical horoscopes of Israel : Abraham bar Riyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer -- The use of horoscopes in Renaissance and early modern Europe -- Various uses of horoscopes : astrological practices in early modern Europe -- Reading health in the stars : politics and medical astrology in Renaissance Milan -- Evidence and conjecture in Cardano's horoscope collections -- The function of horoscopes in biographical narrative : Cardano and after -- J.W.A. Pfaff and the rediscovery of astrology in the age of romanticism
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Astrology-- History
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Horoscopes-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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133.509
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BF1671.H67 2005
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BF1671.H67 2005
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Oestmann, Günther,1959-
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Rutkin, H. Darrel
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Stuckrad, Kocku von,1966-
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