astrological

astrology | American Dictionary

astrology
noun[ U ]
us/əˈstrɑl·ə·dʒi/
the ancient practice of studying the movements and positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars in the belief that they influence human behavior

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The catalogue contains about 400 volumes on astrology and astronomy.
Natural wisdoms like medicine, astrology, geography, and so forth came to be seen as the intellectual legacy of everyone, regardless of creed.
Among such thinkers, astrology and eschatology frequently played an important role.
The only subject explicitly denounced is astrology: the author devotes a long paragraph to its condemnation.
Opponents of astrology and alchemy rejected those branches of knowledge in toto.
For that reason, he also entirely rejected judicial astrology and any astral influences on earth.
She also shows that he made few references to astrology.
In the second group we find a series of astrological works designed to deal with the various branches of astrology.
Nonetheless, it is clear from other sections of his encyclopedia, that he was much given to astrology.
One sign that the astronomer has learned his astrology is his indecision over borderline cases.
These scholarly endeavors are inconceivable without, in the background, astrology as part of a popular culture drawing on techniques of science.
This astrological treatise concerned mainly with medical astrology appears to have been written, as the other components of the astrological encyclopedia, in two versions.
He also introduced such subjects of solid learning as philology, astrology, and mathematics to academy curriculum.
It, of course, can't be genuinely surprising; what follows is the planned and mainly scripted astrology forecast.
Could science, or more properly speaking - natural philosophy, astrology, geography and medicine - be dissociated from these controversies?
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