Unlocked: Myth of the Month 14: Astrology
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Theory of Conjunctions in Astrology
A lot of this wisdom was brought from persia and other places by jewish scholars such as masha allah ibin atari, who taught astrology in bagdad. And even a special school devoted specifically to astrology was set up as kind of an adjunct to the house of wisdom mainly by jewish astrologers. It then, of course, was further embellished and passed on by arabic speaking moslem scholars. A lot of the terms that we still use in astrology, and that also have passed over into astronomy, like zenith and azimuth, for the point at the top of the and point directly below it, these come from arab
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