The Competition Between Greek and Arabic Astrology

Avicenna would prefer these naturalistic explanations that you get from a figure like Avicenna to be, in a way, more obvious and easy answer which is that God just does it. So he's just giving you the option of thinking about it rationalistically rather than appealing directly to divine power. I was struck reading your book about the transmission of Arabic sciences into the Renaissance Latin tradition that there was a lot of debate over the status of Arabic astrology. We have such a discussion, the antagonism between Greek and Arabic traditions in many corners of Renaissance thought. Many things that later appear in Arabic astrologers are in other Greek astrologers, as we know today.