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={Claudia Ruth Brosseder},
  journal={Journal of the History of Ideas},
  year={2005},
  volume={66},
  pages={557 - 576}
}
  • C. Brosseder
  • Published 2005
  • Philosophy
  • Journal of the History of Ideas
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… Expand
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