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FOR the convenience of astrologers “Whitaker's Almanack” for 1947 carefully records the “hour when the Sun enters each Sign of the Zodiac”; Eisler describes in his opening pages how rampant astrology is. He is obviously anxious to destroy this present “stale, superstitious residue”, and perhaps his historical survey often forgets his own dictum that this once “glorious philosophical attempt” founded modern astronomy and cosmology (pp. 28, 262). He connects present astrology with “widespread intellectual destitution”, and includes with it many pre-critical survivals, such as belief in the “spontaneous generation of life” or in “causes and effects” (pp. 11f, 260f).
The Royal Art of Astrology
By Robert Eisler. Pp. 296 + 17 plates. (London: Herbert Joseph, Ltd., 1946.) 18s. net.
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GREGORY, J. Onslaught on A Superstition. Nature 160, 276 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160276a0
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