Medical astrology (traditionally known as iatromathematics) is an ancient applied branch of astrology based mostly on melothesia (Gr. μελοθεσία), the association of various parts of the body, diseases, and drugs with the nature of the sun, moon, planets, and the twelve astrological signs.[1] The underlying basis for medical astrology is considered to be a pseudoscience as there is no scientific basis for its core beliefs. [2][3][4][5][6][7]
A 1410 illustration of Zodiac Man (homo signorum) showing the anciently held link between the 12 signs of the Zodiac and the various parts of the bodyThis table, from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript, links astrological dates with the preparation of medicine.The anatomical-astrological human
Ficino, Marsilio, Three Books on Life (1489) [De vita libri tre] translated by Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton and The Rneaissance Society of America (1989.) ISBN0-86698-041-5
^Paul R. Thagard, 'Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience', PSA, vol 1. University of Chicago Press, 1978.
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Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler (2015). "Astronomy, Astrology, and Medicine". Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. pp. 117–132. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_19. ISBN978-1-4614-6140-1. This chapter covers the topic of astronomy, astrology, and medicine from the Old Babylonian period to the Enlightenment.
Harrison, Mark (2000). "From medical astrology to medical astronomy: Sol-lunar and planetary theories of disease in British medicine, c. 1700–1850". The British Journal for the History of Science. 33 (116 Pt 1): 25–48. doi:10.1017/S0007087499003854. PMID 11624340. S2CID 22247498.
Resor, C. W. (June 3, 2020). "The Zodiac Man: How Astrology Guided Health Care". Primary Source Bazaar.
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