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What’s the Difference Between Astrology and Astronomy (and Why It Matters)
Astrology and astronomy. These two words sound alike, and some people even use them interchangeably, but they couldn’t be ...
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A Psychologist’s Take On The Astrology Debate And How To Spot Believers
A positive correlation between the perceived scientific-ness of astronomy and astrology suggested confusion between the two terms. Knowledge about science and authoritarianism also influenced ...
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Understanding Eclipses in Both Astronomy and Astrology
Eclipses have long been a topic of fascination, uniting the precision of astronomy with the mystique of astrology. These celestial events are not only awe-inspiring astronomical occurrences but ...
Cambridge University Press11mon
Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World
This nontechnical overview of the Islamic advances in the heavenly sciences allows the general reader to appreciate (for the first time) the absolutely crucial role that Muslim scientists played in ...
Scientific American20d
Medieval Elites Cared about Their Zodiac Signs, Too
But in the medieval period, people were really thinking of astrology as part of astronomy. And so we can think of astronomy in the Middle Ages as the observation of the heavens, the movement of ...
Cambridge University Press1y
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
As elsewhere in the ancient world, there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral omenology, is a principal focus of ...