Astrology in the Early Modern Period: Practices and Concepts

Broecke, Steven Vanden

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“…29 Nor has the idea of astrology's marginalization as a whole been left unchallenged. 30 However, a large body of work continues to find examples showing that astrology did begin to fade away at the beginning of, and throughout, the seventeenth century in many places. 31 Reasons for this stretch far beyond the 'new science', and could be tied into, as Steven Vanden Broecke has shown, an early modern change driven by elites that actively politicized the practice of astrology, and in effect transformed an understanding of astrology from 'proper cosmic governance of the self' towards a 'focus on the self's adherence to proper socio-cultural order'.…”

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É Astrologia MA non É Astrologo: John Aubrey's Brief Lives and Astrology

Ochocinski

2024

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This article explores John Aubrey's (1627–1697) extensive use of astrology in his biographical collection Brief Lives (1680–1681), which has been widely celebrated for its vivid portrayal of seventeenth-century English culture and society. Aubrey's life writing was not only informed by his antiquarian pursuits, the vibrant coffee house culture of his time and his lively scientific community, but also by the practice of astrology. Through Aubrey's horoscope collection, Collectio geniturarum (1674–1690), and his correspondence with a wide astrological network, this article traces his deep engagement with the practice. In squarely focusing on these two sources, I argue that Aubrey greatly relied on astrological methods to inform his life writing. In making his collection of horoscopes, Aubrey drew on a long tradition of astrological data gathering. Aubrey's careful collation and calculation of data to verify birth times, identify major life events and determine ‘ingenious’ traits also contributed to a wider effort to reform astrology considering the nascent experimental philosophy. By examining Aubrey's multifaceted astrological writings, this article clarifies one of Aubrey's key techniques used in his early sketches of Brief Lives . More broadly, it further complicates the historical narrative that astrology was largely marginalized in late seventeenth-century English intellectual and scientific communities.

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“…publication, which was edited by Edward McGehee around 1970. See Michael Hunter, 'John Aubrey's Brief Lives: the edition we have been waiting for', Seventeenth Cent 30. (3), 339-351 (3 July 2015), at p. 342.…”

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É Astrologia MA non É Astrologo: John Aubrey's Brief Lives and Astrology

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Astrology in the Early Modern Period: Practices and Concepts

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