Chapter
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Māshā’allāh’s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology
You are currently not able to access this content.
You are currently not able to access this content.
Chapters in this book
- i-iv i
- Acknowledgements v
- Contents vii
- Introduction: Horoscopes and History 1
-
Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity
- Sulla’s Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1) 13
- What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69) 37
- The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea 49
- The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources 69
-
Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse
- Māshā’allāh’s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology 95
- Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar 101
- The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World 115
- Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Ḥiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer 145
-
Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
- Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe 167
- Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan 183
- Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano’s Horoscope Collections 207
- The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After 225
- J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism 241
-
Epilogue
- The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription 261
- Contributors 275
- Index 279
Chapters in this book
- i-iv i
- Acknowledgements v
- Contents vii
- Introduction: Horoscopes and History 1
-
Part I: Horoscopes and the Public Sphere in Antiquity
- Sulla’s Horoscope? (Firm. math. 6,31,1) 13
- What Was Agrippina Waiting For? (Tacitus, Ann. XII, 68-69) 37
- The Emperor Hadrian in the Horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea 49
- The Possible Survival of Babylonian Astrology in the Fifth Century CE: A Discussion of Historical Sources 69
-
Part II: Medieval Astrology: Muslim and Jewish Discourse
- Māshā’allāh’s Zoroastrian Historical Astrology 95
- Circular Motions: Private Pleasure and Public Prognostication in the Nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar 101
- The Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a Cosmological Vision in the Islamic World 115
- Historical Horoscopes of Israel: Abraham bar Ḥiyya, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Yosef ben Eliezer 145
-
Part III: The Use of Horoscopes in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
- Various Uses of Horoscopes: Astrological Practices in Early Modern Europe 167
- Reading Health in the Stars: Politics and Medical Astrology in Renaissance Milan 183
- Evidence and Conjecture in Cardano’s Horoscope Collections 207
- The Function of Horoscopes in Biographical Narrative: Cardano and After 225
- J. W. A. Pfaff and the Rediscovery of Astrology in the Age of Romanticism 241
-
Epilogue
- The Historiography of Astrology: A Diagnosis and a Prescription 261
- Contributors 275
- Index 279