Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the papal bull Coeli et terrae.
Historians have portrayed the papal bull Coeli et terrae (1586) as a significant turning point in the history of the Catholic Church's censorship of astrology. They argue that this bull was intended to prohibit the idea that the stars could naturally incline humans towards future actions, but also h...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 77; no. 1; pp. 26 - 50 |
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