ASTROLOGY : Library of Esoterica

Name: ASTROLOGY : Library of Esoterica
Brand: Taschen
SKU: TASCHEN-ASTRO
Price: 40.0 USD
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Looking to the sky, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series delves into the vibrant visual history of Western astrology. The story of this ancient practice is told through more than 400 images — from Egyptian temples to contemporary art — sequenced to mirror the spin of the planets and the wheel of the zodiac.

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Andrea Richards, Susan Miller, Jessica Hundley, Thunderwing

Hardcover, quarter-bound, 6.7 x 9.4 in., 3.54 lb, 520 pages
Edition: English

While modern-day horoscopes may be the most familiar form of astrological knowledge, their lineage reaches back to ancient Mesopotamia. As author Andrea Richards recounts in Astrology, the second volume in TASCHEN’s Library of Esoterica series, astronomy and astrology were once sister sciences: the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza was built to align with constellations, Persian scholars oversaw some of the first observatories, and even Galileo cast horoscopes for the Medicis. But with the Enlightenment and the birth of exact science, the practice moved to places where mystery was still permitted, inspiring literature, art, and psychology, and influenced artists and thinkers such as Goethe, Byron, and Blake. Later movements like the Theosophists and the New Agers, would thrust the practice into the mainstream.