by Mercier, Charles Arthur, 1852-1919
https://archive.org/details/astrologyinmedic00merc/page/n13/mode/2up
Publication date 1914
Topics Astrology
Publisher London : Macmillan and Co.
Reviewer: Shyamasundara - - March 16, 2008
Subject: Is astrology dead?
On page 2-3 of the book the author states that astrology is dead:
"Astrology is now utterly extinct. It began to decay at the renaissance;it languished in the seventeenth century;the last man of high distinction who practiced it in this country was John Dryden ; but though Peter Woulfe, a F.R.S., maintained the truth of Astrology at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it had really expired when it received its deathblow from the biting humour of Jonathan Swift."
He would be very surprised to learn that astrology is now more alive than ever and deserving of intellectual pursuit.
From a brief reading of the text it seems that the author is not a practicing astrologer and hence makes some very basic mistakes such as thinking that Pisces a mutable sign is a cardinal one and that Aries a cardinal sign is a mutable one. Hence, the student should be very careful in using the text for its astrological knowledge but rather it is useful in the history of astrology to see what the contemporaries of that time thought of a science which they thought was dead, but which later rose from the ashes.
"Astrology is now utterly extinct. It began to decay at the renaissance;it languished in the seventeenth century;the last man of high distinction who practiced it in this country was John Dryden ; but though Peter Woulfe, a F.R.S., maintained the truth of Astrology at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it had really expired when it received its deathblow from the biting humour of Jonathan Swift."
He would be very surprised to learn that astrology is now more alive than ever and deserving of intellectual pursuit.
From a brief reading of the text it seems that the author is not a practicing astrologer and hence makes some very basic mistakes such as thinking that Pisces a mutable sign is a cardinal one and that Aries a cardinal sign is a mutable one. Hence, the student should be very careful in using the text for its astrological knowledge but rather it is useful in the history of astrology to see what the contemporaries of that time thought of a science which they thought was dead, but which later rose from the ashes.
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