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Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time, and Cultural Change 1775-1870 Book

Historians have long puzzled over the death of astrology at the end of the 17th century. This book aims to demonstrate that astrology was alive and well for much of the 19th century finding expression in one of the best-selling items of popular literature the almanac.Read More

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    Why is it a laughing matter when an American president consults an astrologer, while political scientists, economists, and meteorologists all seem to depend on predicting the future? In this book, Perkins examines the "death" of astrology's respectability and links it to changing concepts of time in the nineteenth century; she explanes the circumstances in which one type of knowledge, "superstitious," was replaced by another, "scientific."

  • 0198121784
  • 9780198121787
  • Maureen Perkins
  • 17 October 1996
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 288
  • illustrated edition
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