This title was suggested by Harlan T. Stetson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for a synthesis of the contemporary sciences of astronomy, electro-physics, geology and biology. In his book “Earth, Radio and the Stars” he ventures the remark that some curse apparently inures in the word “astro-” that keeps “astrology, mother of all these … Read more
Something vast and systematic, imbued with a sense of magnitude and order. Webster defines cosmical physics as astrophysics. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Ancient man was convinced that his destiny upon earth was ruled by the divine power that placed the stars in the heavens; that every created thing was a result of this influence; and that the Sun was the active principle of good, and the darkness of evil. The ancient concept was aptly expressed by Cowper, … Read more
A theory of cosmic evolution originated by John Fiske and advanced by him as an interpretation of Spenser. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
In the age when an astrologer presumed to find in a chart the answer to every manner of question that could be propounded he frequently undertook to tell, for example, which cock would win in a cockfight merely by indicating the color associated with the strongest planet in an Horary Figure. It also was considered … Read more
According to Ptolemy the sex as well as the incidents relating to a child, prior to its birth, may be deduced from the positions of the planets at the time of conception. The entire subject of prenatal cosmic stimulation is a welter of confused theorizing, which as yet lacks confirmation in practice sufficient to bring … Read more
A system of reckoning and recording the time when events occur; the coordination of the days, weeks, and months of the year with the cycles upon which they are based. The frequency with which astrologers have been known to accept without question a birthdate that a little inquiry would reveal as a Julian date, rather … Read more