"Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes"-- "Astrologers play an important role in Indian society, but there are very few studies on their social identity and professional practices. …
Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.
This work argues that the Elizabethan polymath John Dee was not the influential intellectual he purported himself to be. Dee's scientific works were anachronistic and in no way heralded the new age of experimental science. This book traces the course of Dee's life showing how he…
"One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer - Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede - was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chi…
"One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer - Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede - was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chi…
