Astrology and Human Variation in Early Modern England
-
Altmetric Citations
Description
Processes for the identification of criminal suspects tell us a great deal about wider cultural assumptions and social prejudices regarding somatic difference; its causes, relative degree, and consequence. If early modern Europeans had something approaching a forensic science, it was astrology, which has recently garnered renewed attention from historians of ideas. Rather than assume astrology's seventeenth-century decline in the face of revolutionary natural philosophy, what follows suggests...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
---|---|
Date published: | 2013 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/18354 |
Source: | The Historical Journal |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0018246X12000374 |
Download
Items in Open Research are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Updated: 17 November 2022/ Responsible Officer: University Librarian/ Page Contact: Library Systems & Web Coordinator