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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Different cultures have employed forms of astrology since at least the 2nd millennium BCE, these practices…

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Astrology

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related to history · 43
Astrology → After, Alexander, Alexandria, Ancient Greece, Arabic, Asia, Astrological, At, Babylonian, BCE, Chaldean, Chinese, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Egyptian Decanic, Europe, Galileo, Geoffrey Chaucer, Great's, Hellenistic
related to Renaissance and Early Modern · 41
Astrology → Advances, Almasi, By, Catherine, Denmark, Despite, Earthly, Elizabethan England, English, Ephemerides, France, Gabor Almasi, Galileo Galilei, Gerard Mercator's, Gerolamo Cardano, Giordano Bruno, Habsburgs, Henry II, Hood's, In
related to Western politics and society · 31
Astrology → Adolf Hitler, After John Hinckley's, Astrology-believers, Berger's, British, Donald Regan, For, He, Hitler, Hitler's, However, In, Instead, Joan Quigley, Louis, Marcello Truzzi, MI5, Nancy Reagan, Peter, Quigley's
related to Enlightenment period and onwards · 30
Astrology → According, Astrologers, Bible, Christians, Discourse, During, Enlightenment, Feasts, Following, France Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire, Hebraic, In, Invalidity, John Partridge, Jonathan Swift, London's, Magi, Mathematicians, Michelle Pfeffer, Modern
related to Chinese and East Asian · 28
Astrology → Asia, Celestial, Chinese, Ci, Complex, Dog, Dragon, Earthly Branches, Europe, Five, Goat, Horse, It, Monkey, Ox, Pig, Rabbit, Rat, Rooster, Snake
related to Hellenistic Egypt · 28
Astrology → Alexander, Alexandria, Babylonian, Balance, BCE, BCE Egyptian Dendera Zodiac, Bible, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptian Decanic, Gods, Great, Greek, Hellenistic, Horoscopic, In, It, Mesopotamian, Persians, Ptolemy
related to Reception in the social sciences · 23
Astrology → Assyriologist Matthew Rutz, Francesca Rochberg, Hakinson, Hanegraaff, Hellenistic, Historians, Indian, Indigenous, Justin Niermeier-Dohoney, Nicholas Campion, Only, Patrick Curry, Renaissance, Roger Beck, Roy Willis, Scholars, Similarly, Some, Tamsyn Barton, Thagard
related to Greece and Rome · 22
Astrology → Alexander, Around, Asia, Babylon, Babylonian, BCE, Bel, Berossus, By, Great, Greek, Greeks, Kos, Modern, Persia, Roman Empire, Rome, Samasota, Satirist Lucian, Second Sophistic
related to Medieval · 22
Astrology → Al-Farabi, Alhazen, Alpharabius, Avicenna, Avicenna's, Essentially, For, God, Haytham, He, Ibn, Ibn Qayyim, Islamic, Jawziyya, Miftah Dar, Muslim, Refutation, Risāla, SaCadah, Some
related to Hindu · 17
Astrology → Aries, Babylonian, BCE, Greek, Heli, Helios, Hellenistic, Hindi, Hindu, Krios, Kriya, Sun, The, The Indian, Varaha Mihira's, Vedanga Jyotisha, Vedic

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astrological stars astrologers century planets zodiac scientific astronomy used bce also signs western science astrologer chinese texts one islamic first

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Astrologyis arange of divinatory practices0.90text
Astrologyis aform of divination based on the construction of a horoscope for an exact moment0.90text
Astrologyis apseudoscience0.90text
Astrologyis apseudoscience which carries no predictive capability0.90text
Astrologyis alarge-scale manifestation of systematic irrationalism0.90text
Astrologyis aorchestral suite The Planets0.90text
Dante Alighieriinstance ofAstrological references appear in literature in the works of poets0.80text
Geoffrey Chaucerinstance ofAstrological references appear in literature in the works of poets0.80text
and of playwrights such as Christopher Marloweinstance ofAstrological references appear in literature in the works of poets0.80text
William Shakespeare.Throughout most of its historyinstance ofAstrological references appear in literature in the works of poets0.80text
astrology was considered a scholarly traditioninstance ofAstrological references appear in literature in the works of poets0.80text
Carneadesinstance ofCriticism of astrology by academic sceptics0.80text

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