...-century antecedents in Joseph Addison and Adam Smith. Like two of his early protagonists, Guy Mannering the astrologer and Jonathan Oldbuck the antiquary, “the Author of Waverley ” is himself a compromised Stoic, yet Scott's narratives demonstrate repeatedly how, while it may fail on its own terms...

...Gerard Passannante Abstract Looking at a variety of cases from the early modern period—from debates around astrology to the essays of Michel de Montaigne to the poetry and prose of John Donne and the philosophical fictions of Margaret Cavendish—this essay explores the encounter with materialist...

...Chauncey Wood Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 THE APRIL DATE AS A STRUCTURAL DEVICE IN THE CANTERBURY TALES By CHAUNCEYWOOD A good deal of work has been done by Chaucerian scholars on the astrological...

..., however, that one reason Chaucer may have made this change was to produce associations with the astrological palace, or the domain of a particular planet. I believe that at this point Chaucer introduces an astrological figure which con- tinues to operate throughout the entire passage...

...-unhap- pily too late for inclusion in Knowles’s edition. Working with the as- sumption that the sevenfold scheme was “standard” in Shakespeare’s day and its rationale “astrological,” the ages corresponding “in number, sequence, and characteristics to the planetary spheres,” Bradford firmly...

... in the History, Ralegh’s discussions of three topics are especially relevant : his defense of natural magic, his judgments upon the uses and limitations of astrology, and his exposition of the duty of the scientist to his fellow man. Fundamental to a discussion of these particular topics are cer...

.... This selection gives some equally valuable hints on how to diagnose the pest. The fourth text, that of Martin Pollich’s prophecy for 1490, predicts that year’s weather, harvest, famines, catastrophes, wars, etc., from astrological data. Later in his life, Pollich tried to combat such belief...

...: if they blend, he will live; if they separate, he will die. This selection gives some equally valuable hints on how to diagnose the pest. The fourth text, that of Martin Pollich’s prophecy for 1490, predicts that year’s weather, harvest, famines, catastrophes, wars, etc., from astrological...

... does not pretend it to be. But, for the student of literature or of intellectual history, the false notions men have held are as important as the true; therefore the attention Thorn- dike pays to astrology, alchemy, chiromancy, physiognomy, and witchcraft increases the usefulness of his...

..., astronomer, and astrologer Regiomontanus (1967 [1533]: 27) declared in On Triangles of All Kinds that “no one can bypass the science of triangles and reach a satisfying knowledge of the stars.”5 Copernicus agreed and used Regiomontanus’s work to modify his own On the Revolutions of the Celestial...

... on the subject; in the twelfth century, with the extensive transla- tions of astrological treatises, the idea of seven ages was introduced. Plan- etary influence, however, remained a somewhat remote concept during the Middle Ages, to emerge in a more pronounced fashion in the late Renais- sance...

... who is Venus’ clerk and a master of the illiberal arts of astrology and seduction; and the third exhibits what may more fairly be called an archetype than many creatures so named in our time: the smooth, soft, shapely, and eminently lovable Alysoun. The root portraits of Alysoun...

... an academic comedy possessed of little intrinsic merit and obscure enough even in its own day. Believing that a primary reason for interest in the play is its place in the anti-astrological literature of the early sev- enteenth century, the editor gives a major part of his Introduction to a survey...

... and astrology, e.g., when the Campbells pre- dict the sex of their unborn child. Defoe writes that such beliefs have been “accounted by some, and those wise and judicious men too, to be ridiculously superstitious . . .” (p. 19). (The word “judicious” will leave its mark.) After the birth of Duncan...

...Robert J. Allen 356 Rcvkws an academic comedy possessed of little intrinsic merit and obscure enough even in its own day. Believing that a primary reason for interest in the play is its place in the anti-astrological literature of the early sev- enteenth...

... of the years, 1268-75. The question is whether he may he identified with a master John of Hoveden, prebendary of Hovedm and an astrologer, who died in the years, 1272-6. The arguments against the traditional identification are that the clerk of Eleanor lived on after 1276 and was not a master.34...

... of “Alourning” is that of Miscellnneoirs Poenis (I68l). as reproduced in Poenis rind Letters of Andrew Mumell, ed. H. XI. Iargoliouth (Oxford, 1927). Quotations within niy commentary have been modernized. ,* llarvell may have borrowed the astrology image from Cleveland’s “The Hecatomb to his...

... sis- ter, astrology. Uniting the two is the almanac, so popular in the Renaissance as a disseminator of both astronomical and astrological lore among the general public. For England we are fortunate in having Bosanquet’s complete, annotated bibliographical catalogue of early almanacs.48...

... of the state and can appear in the corpus as a politician,judge, commissioner, priest, or military leader. (He is the astrologer in Arlt, who has the added name that Erdosain lacks and also a third name given to him by Erdosain himself, Lenin; the bishop or the priest in Garcia Miirquez...

... at first hand the gropings of a Renaissance mind, still held back in part by a strange mixture of astrology, Christianity, and Pla- tonism, yet slowly disengaging a fundamental concept of human progress. The text, however, might have been made accessible to more readers if the spelling had...