Price € 18.00
Odradek
Editions Book - 220 Pages
Size: 13.5 x21
Year: 2010
Astrology is a practice with amazing ability to change and adaptation as scientific matter managed to survive for a while even the earthquake resulted from the heliocentric theory of Copernicus and Galileo discovered the telescope. Its decline was slow because, although the theoretical model was in crisis, the operations is not affected.
Kepler thought that astrology might be reformed, and in the second half of the seventeenth century a number of astrologers seek to adapt their art to the new experimental science.
Even in the eighteenth century - in full Enlightenment - astrology was a weak residual survival in the field of medicine and meteorology. Later, as a science, astrology was completely discredited and survived mainly in the popular almanacs.
But already in the nineteenth century occultism and was recovered in the next century, the first studies on the symbolism and myth in art history and then by Jungian thought. Everything came together in thought New Age, in which astrology has a role alongside other alternative disciplines and value millenarian.
How legitimate science, however, was unable to recover. For centuries it was considered insignificant and left aside by astronomers and scientists, or fought with rhetorical weapons. Surprisingly, only in the last century have been put in place a series of studies that have demonstrated "scientifically" that astrology is not a science. But maybe it was wasted effort: the reasons for the success of this practice are not only logical and rational and not measured in terms of effectiveness.
It follows that can be classified as "easy to guess" those who have predicted that this will pseudo-science with us much longer.
Andrea Albini (Pavia, 1962) at the Technical University of Pavia, assigned to the study of engineering materials. Author of a number of scientific papers, is also involved in popularizing science and has worked with national newspapers and magazines on topics of history of science and technology. And technical-scientific Cicap (Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal).
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