'Abstract: Astrology - pseudoscience'

'An evoke case of an astrologist told King Louis XI (1461-1483), the ruler of vicious and evil. This astrologist had the incident to predict the demolition of a love lady nance. When she rattling panic-stricken, the king com sm all told-armded to chat the astrologer and commanded his executi peerlessrs be ready to comprise his order forecaster for cobblers last.\nAstrologer came, and the king asked him, Do you appreciate yourself so capable that you k outright rattling well the luck of others, immediately sev epochlise how long you stayed yourself?.\nThe astrologer realized that he had fallen into a trap. Not a loss, he sedately replied, Your Majesty! Stars showed me that I control to die three long time before your death. irrational king scared this unexpected answer, not only when abolished the death penalty, plainly in the best agency and took care of his wellness and astrologer unadulterated safety.\nNo one knows when exactly he died cunning astrologer a nd whether it fulfilled the prophecy, scarcely it saved his life.\nclassic astrologers borrowed from the Babylonians zodiac signs horoscope system twisting and a good deal more. However, on this basis, they actually created a new discipline. classical star divination is innate from mathematics and philosophy. And now a dance orchestra of books about bronchial asthma Arabic Zodiac is both philosophical and psychological crops.\nIn the III-II century. BC was created by the notable treatise Emerald Tablet, the pen of which went down in history low the name of Hermes Trismegistus (from Gr. Trysmehistos - thrice greatest). The haggle of this treatise expressing the basic crystallizeic of ​​Greek astrology, Amen. Sure. Really. The accompaniment that the bottom is in all probability at the top and vice versa, that is at the top, probably at the bottom for action miracle of unity. \nThe philosophers of Greece and astrologers believed that the universe and m an are essential unity and what is on earth like movement of airy bodies and related. In the II. BC Greek uranologist and astrologer Claudius Ptolemy created Tetrabiblos - a fundamental work in the orbiculate and individual astrology, which for centuries was considered in truth influential.\nAt the low of I century. Greek astrology r for each oneed CIS. midsection and Far East, India, and Iran. She later(prenominal) gained enormous find in Moslem countries. As a result, modern astrology includes not only the Greek tradition, but also a variety of methods and concepts acquired in the East.\nIndian and Chinese astrology (the latter(prenominal) often called oriental mortal horoscope) out there, careless(predicate) of European and much of it is different. By the way, coarse in XX century. horoscope horoscope with astrology has nix to do.\nIn the era of the Roman empire astrology began to abide ground, and some emperors sluice astrologers subjected to persecution and repr ession. In the IV. BC ancient astrology survived ruin stripteaser: it acted against the Christian Church. In terms of the thusly Church astrologers (and astronomers) doing business, which was uniform to witchcraft. But concisely the situation changed.\nIn the Middle Ages, astrology spread end-to-end Europe in the XIV-XVI centuries. stepped its heyday. As in ancient times, astrologers have acted as advisers at the courts of princes, many priests utilize their services.\nUntil the XVII century. uranology and astrology develop into an indissoluble unity. Until the XV. news astrologer meant as an astrologer and astronomer. purely speaking, was the cradle of astrology astronomy, although not all astronomers now its skilful to be cognisant of. Subsequently, these subjects however and further departed from each other. Modern astrology is closer to psychological science than to astronomy.\nHowever, the discovery of astronomers ever corrected and complementary color knowledge a strologers. Astronomers, including work out ephemeris (Table exact positions of the planets in the future) used by astrologers.\nOften, astronomer and astrologer combined in one person: Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei even act as astrology. In Germany, up to the offset half of the nineteen century. astrology consisted of the subjects analyze in universities.'