Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 238
the Arab doctors of medicine introduced the systemof astronomy which they had learned from the Greeks. A doctor without astrology, it was said, is like aneye that cannot see; and before prescribing for apatient it was thought quite as important to determinethe positions of the planets, as the… … ASTRONOMY TO EUROPE. 201 One of their duties was to provide judgments{i.e. to cast the horoscope) gratis for students. But thedignity was a perilous one. Legitimate prediction byastrology bordered close on necromancy, which wasbanned by the Church, and one of Bolognas mostCecco dAscoli famous…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy
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