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Mathieu Ossendrijver
(Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums)
The introduction of the zodiac triggered an ultimately global and enduring transformation of astral science and other realms of scholarship which took shape in Babylonia, Egypt and the Greco-Roman world between the 5th century BCE and the 3rd century CE. It was accompanied by three seminal innovations that are constitutive for modern astronomy and astrology : (1) a zodiacal turn – the zodiac...
