TWO RENAISSANCE VIEWS OF ASTROLOGY: PICO AND KEPLER.
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Title
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TWO RENAISSANCE VIEWS OF ASTROLOGY: PICO AND KEPLER.
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Identifier
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AAI8713788
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identifier
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8713788
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Creator
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RABIN, SHEILA J.
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Contributor
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Richard Lemay
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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History, Modern
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Abstract
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During the Renaissance the practice of astrology and the occult was extremely widespread among the educated classes of Europe. One result is that a significant number of treatises attacking or defending astrology were written. This study examines the views expressed in two polemical treatises on astrology, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputations against Judicial Astrology and Johannes Kepler's Third Man in the Middle, and assesses how the views of astrology reflected in these treatises affect changes in the relationship between astrology and astronomy during the Renaissance.;This dissertation examines such issues as whether or not Pico's attitude toward astrology is different in the Disputations from that in earlier works, his motivation for writing this work, and whether or not it had positive impact on practicing astronomers. With regard to Kepler this study discusses the impact of Pico's treatise on Kepler and whether Pico was influential in Kepler's astrological or astronomical opinions. It also explores Kepler's attitudes toward mysticism and the occult in light of his ideas on astrology and his views about Pico's treatise.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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History
