“…All of this suggests that Meliteniotes's ban on astrology reflects an historical turning point for the history of the science of the stars between Eastern and Western Christianity, in (Rutkin 2019, 369-373;Byrne 2006;Omodeo 2021;Bardi 2022), and Catholics as well as Lutheran astronomers, such as Galilei, Kepler, and Brahe, all still cast horoscopes for their patrons. Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas undertook extensive reflections on astrology and never rejected it as the hesychasts did.…”