Astrology: Full Bibliography

Recommended Reading

Eugenio Garin, Astrology in the Renaissance: the zodiac of life, trans. Carolyn Jackson and June Allen, rev. Clare Robertson, London, Boston, 1983

Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo Rossi and Maurice Slawinski (eds), Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe, Manchester 1991

Further Texts

Tamsyn Barton, Ancient Astrology, London and New York, 1994

Peter Burke, The fabrication of Louis XIV, New Haven, 1992

Keith Hutchison, 'Towards a political iconology of the Copernican revolution', in Patrick Curry (ed), Astrology, Science and Society: historical essays, Woodbridge, 1987, 95-141.

S. Kusukawa, 'Aspectio divinorum operum: Melanchthon and Astrology for Lutheran Medics', in Ole Grell and A. R. Cunningham (eds), Medicine and the Reformation, London, 1993, pp. 33-56

Ottavia Niccoli, Prophecy and people in Renaissance Italy, trans. by Lydia G. Cochrane, Princeton, 1990.

John North, The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, London, 1994

Olaf Pedersen, 'The Corpus Astronomicum and the traditions of medieval Latin astronomy', Studia Copernicana 3 (1975), 57-96.

James Randi, The mask of Nostradamus, New York, 1990, an amusing, if popular, anatomy of Nostradamus' success.

Nancy Siraisi, Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine, Chicago 1990, for medical astrology.

R. S. Westman, 'The astronomer's role in the sixteenth century: a preliminary study', History of Science 18 (1980), 105-47.

Lynn Thorndike, University Records and Life in the Middle Ages, New York, 1944, for the University of Bologna.

Lynn Thorndike, A history of magic and experimental science, New York: Macmillan, 1923-58, 8 vols, still the best compilation of astrology, its practice and critics.

P. Zambelli (ed.), 'Astrologi Hallucinati': Stars and the End of the World in Luther's Time, Berlin and New York, 1986.