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Physiognomy and astrology (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
astrology
Greece
medicine
omens
physiognomy
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Galen, Prognostics from the Taking to Bed, vol. 19 (Kühn):
Astrology is the foreseeing part of their (= physicians’) art, and if not all, but at least most of them have accepted this part of astrology as part of medicine… Hippocrates said that (any physician’s) mind strays into darkness, who has not used physiognomy. But the physiognomical part of astrology is its major part.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Galen, Prognostics from the Taking to Bed, vol. 19 (Kühn)

Bibliography

Barton 1994, 185Barton, Tamsyn. Ancient Astrology. London, New York: Routledge 1994.

Amar Annus


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