Astrologers popularity

Dircks, Henry. Scientific studies , or, practical, in contrast with chimerical pursuits, exemplified in two popular lectures I. The life of Edward Somerset, second marquis of Worcester, inventor of the steam engine. II. Chimeras of science astrology, alchemy, squaring the circle, perpetuum mobile, etc. London E. F. N. Spon, 1869. 

Capp, Bernard, Astrology and the Popular Press English Almanacs 1 00—1800 (1979). 

In recent years interest in the history of alchemy and early chemistry has increased, perhaps encouraged in part by a burgeoning popular interest in occult phenomena. Alchemy and astrology taken together were thought to provide access to the hidden structures and processes of nature.44 A conference on the history of alchemy... 

Apart from "popular Hermetism," as Festugiere used to say, represented by astrology and other occult sciences, there is erudite Hermetism, which is what principally interests us here, and which revolves entirely around the idea that Man can discover the divine, on one hand because of theurgic practices, and on the other hand through establishing a mystical relationship between the universe and humanity. One of the basic concepts of Hermetism (Hermetica as well as modern Hermeticism) is that one can regain his divine essence, lost since the Fall, by renewing his links with the divine... 

B. S. Capp, English Almanacs, 1500-1800 Astrology and the Popular Press (Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 1979). See also Margaret C. Jacob, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (New York Oxford University Press, 1997), especially 87-96 Michael Heyd, Be Sober and Reasonable The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Leiden E.J. Brill, 1995). 

For example, see M. Hansen (trans.), The Planets and Their Children A Blockhook of Medieval Popular Astrology, posted on http //www.englib.cornell.edu/mhh4/planets/planets.html (1999) and W.Kenton, Astrology The Celestial Mirror, New York, Thames Hudson, 1989, figs. 28-33, 37-9, 40-1, and p. 109. 

Hansen, M. (trans.) The Planets and Their Children A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology, www.englib.comell.edu/mhh4/planets/planets.html, 1999. 

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