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Astrology, natural philosophy and the history of science, c. 1250--1700: Studies toward an interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's 'Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem'.
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>Astrology, natural philosophy and the history of science, c. 1250--1700: Studies toward an interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's 'Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem'.
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Astrology, natural philosophy and the history of science, c. 1250--1700: Studies toward an interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's 'Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem'.
My dissertation investigates Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's (1463–94) extensive attack on astrology, the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496), its context and influence. A central unanswered question in the history of science is how astrology came to be removed from its formerly central position in the premodern scientific world view (c.1250–1600) during the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In order to answer this question properly, we must first have a clear idea of astrology's place in premodern Aristotelian-Ptolemaic science, a subject imperfectly understood in the literature. In my reconstruction, I have found that astrology was taught in the best premodern universities (including those where Pico studied) in three distinct scientific disciplines: mathematics, natural philosophy and medicine. On this basis, I provide an interpretive framework for analyzing both the rejection of astrology from the realm of legitimate science during the scientific revolution and Pico's complex role in that process. After clarifying the place of astrology in Pico's own thought (and its relation to Marsilio Ficino's), I analyze Pico's attack on the natural philosophical foundations of astrology. Although Pico's attack was influential, my results demonstrate that earlier claims of astrology's immediate complete destruction are grossly exaggerated; astrology continued to be taught at the best universities well into the seventeenth century. My dissertation provides a historical and conceptual foundation for further research on this central yet understudied topic.
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机译：我的论文研究了乔瓦尼·皮科·德拉·米兰多拉（Giovanni Pico della Mirandola，1463-94年）对占星术的广泛抨击， Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem （1496）及其背景和影响。科学史上一个尚未解决的核心问题是，在十七世纪的科学革命期间，如何将占星术从其在前现代科学世界观（约1250年至1600年）中的中心地位中删除。为了正确回答这个问题，我们必须首先对占星术在前现代的亚里士多德-托勒密科学中的位置有一个清晰的认识，这在文献中还没有被完全理解。在我的重建过程中，我发现占星术是在数学，自然哲学和医学这三门不同的科学学科中最好的前现代大学（包括皮科研究过的大学）中教授的。在此基础上，我提供了一个解释框架，用于分析科学革命期间占星术对合法科学领域的拒绝，以及笔克在此过程中的复杂角色。在阐明了占星术在笔克自己的思想中的地位（及其与马西里奥·菲奇诺的关系）之后，我分析了笔克对占星术自然哲学基础的攻击。尽管Pico的攻击颇有影响，但我的结果表明，先前关于占星术立即完全毁灭的说法被严重夸大了；直到十七世纪，最好的大学都继续教授占星术。我的论文为进一步研究这一中心但未被研究的主题提供了历史和概念基础。
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