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professor of mathematics at Tubingen, computed the exact date of his death, which was to take place by an accident. By inviting friends and staying quietly at home, he tried to evade the possibility of an accident. In a dispute, Horoscope Analysis
however, wishing to prove his arguments, he went to a high book-shelf, to seize a folio-volume, he fell and got a deadly wound. We may mention the names of Melanchton and Johann Miiller. The former wrote a.o. a preface to a work of the astrologer Schonez and delivered lectures on astrology. Tycho de Brake (1546 1601) tried to raise astrology to a religion. Vedic Astrologers in India
He says e.g.: "The stars rule the lot of man, but God rules the stars." He was however not blind to the abuse, made of astrology. Paracelsus studied especially the influence of the planets on the vegetable and mineral kingdom and discovered a large number of medicines, by comparing the microcosmos (man) to the macrocosmos (our solar system), led by logic and intuition. Keppler, the famous astronomer was an astrologer as well. It is universally known how he predicted to Wallenstein, at that time young and unknown, his future glory. He predicted several details concerning his career, the enemies he would make, his eagerness for fame and glory, his marriage and financial circumstances and the exact day of Wallenstein's death. Of William Lilly, the well-kwown London astrologer it is known that he foretold the great London fire in 1666. His astrological works are still being studied. Pico de Mirandola, a fierce opponent of astrology, gave at his death the most striking proof of the truth of astrology, for he died at the exact hour that the astrologers had predicted. Dr. John Butler, another opponent of astrology, who in order to be able to oppose it with more success and to show its weak points, took up the study of astrology, changed tactics after that study, viz. instead of attacking astrology as he originally intended to he wrote a book to show the truth of astrology. Professor Max Miiller once said, that many of our greatest men of intellect studied astrology, but that the majority of them never expressed their opinion on that point for fear of being ranked with the quacks in this line, the so-called astrologers and the fortune-tellers. Francis Bacon, baron of Verulam, one of the greatest minds of his time, believed in planetary influences, just like Isaac Newton, the great researcher and thinker. He defended astrology against the astronomer Halley by saying: "I have studied the subject, Mr. Halley, you have not!" Newton never expressed his opinion on things he was not certain about. His great caution in this direction is as well-known as his enormous scientific merits.
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