The Writing in the Wittenberg Sky: Astrology in Sixteenth-Century Germany
@article{Brosseder2005TheWI, title={The Writing in the Wittenberg Sky: Astrology in Sixteenth-Century Germany}, author={C. Brosseder}, journal={Journal of the History of Ideas}, year={2005}, volume={66}, pages={557 - 576} }
It probably was a delightful summer day when the celebrated humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, best known as a friend of Albrecht Durer and Erasmus of Rotterdam, strolled, with an unknown friend, through the streets of Nuremberg. When they saw a girl standing at the streetside, it occurred to the friend to predict the girl's future by reading her palm. So he did, foretelling a forthcoming marriage and a blissful life. After the girl had passed on, Pirckheimer's unknown friend admitted that… CONTINUE READING
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