Heaven and Earth United
Instruments in Astrological Contexts
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Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004362758
- ISBN-109004362754
- Library of Congress Control Number2018027223
- OCLC Control Number1041898117
- Better World Books9789004362758
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38036393M
Classifications
- LCCQB85.H43 2018
- LCCQB85 .H43 2018
Description
"Historically, the idea that the stars and planets influence the Earth and its inhabitants has proved powerful in almost every culture, offering an important context for the use of mathematical and astronomical instruments. In the past, however, historians of astronomy have paid relatively little attention to astrology and other "non-scientific" topics, while historians of astrology have tended to concentrate on the analysis of texts rather than surviving artefacts, scientific instruments in particular. Heaven and Earth United is an attempt to redress the balance through an exploration of the astrological contexts in which instruments once found a place"--
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