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    This document is a table of contents for a book about astrology and its role in 17th century England. It explores astrologer William Lilly and how he used astrological language and symbols. Several chapters analyze how Lilly and others used astrology to interpret and predict major events like the death of King Charles I through various natural phenomena like comets, eclipses, and conjunctions of planets. The book examines astrology as an important symbolic language and how its influence declined.

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    ASTROLOGY AND THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MIND

    WILLIAM LILLY AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE STARS

    Ann Geneva

    Manchester University Press


    Manchester and New York
    Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St Martin's Press

    CONTENTS

    List of illustrations Series editor's introduction Preface ' A S T R O L O G Y P R O V E D HARMLESS, USEFUL, P I O U S ' Astrological Revisionism Acknowledgements O n e ' F O R A S T R O L O G Y W A N T S ITS H I S T O R Y ' Astrological Historians Two 'AENIGMAES, M E T A P H O R S , PARABOLS, A N D F I G U R E S ' Seventeenth Century Encrypting Three ' T H E STARS CHIEFEST A M B A S S A D O R ' William Lilly, Primus Inter Pares Four ' T H E M I R R O U R O F T H E W O R L D ' Natural Phenomena as Portents
    COMETS ECLIPSES 'DAZZLE MINE EYES': AN EXPLANATION OF PARHELIA THE DOCTRINE OF CONJUNCTIONS

    page ix xii

    xiii xviii I 17 55 75
    84 97 99 118

    Five 'THAT HIDDEN AND SUBLIME SCIENCE' The Astrological Tradition Six 'ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS' The Starry Language Decoded Seven THE KING MUST DIE Charles I Death Prophecies
    DEATH BY NATURAL PHENOMENA

    151 175 202


    202 208 213 223

    England's Prophetkall Merline


    DEATH BY CONJUNCTION DEATH BY ECLIPSE AND COMETARY INFLUENCE

    The Starry Messenger


    DEATH BY PARHELIA

    [vii]

    CONTENTS

    Eight THE 'HIEROGLYPHIC KING' Death by Cipher Nine EPILOGUE: 'THIS WORLD'S SPENT' The Decline of Astrology as a Symbolic Language System Index

    238 263 286

    [viii]

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