tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post1093792187819592673..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Novus Ordo Seclorum: NeoClassicismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-21822230481479461542008-07-09T20:20:00.000-04:002008-07-09T20:20:00.000-04:00Kepler was employed to make more precise astrologi...Kepler was employed to make more precise astrological tables, and in the process made very precise measurements of planetary motion. The European Renaissance and early Modern eras had many astrology followers and "technicians". Newton was not unusual in his interest.<BR/><BR/>NancyPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-83524391192666770142008-07-02T11:57:00.000-04:002008-07-02T11:57:00.000-04:00It as the Restauration Royal Society which did "sc...It as the Restauration Royal Society which did "science" contra Oxford and the rest... <BR/><BR/>In later Ages this has been greatly censored in the Name of Reason... <BR/><BR/>Heroes are Heroes; especially "objective" ones, "bourgeois" ones, for a while "Marxist" ones ;=)<BR/><BR/>Myths and "Science"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-18543678224818766922008-07-02T11:18:00.000-04:002008-07-02T11:18:00.000-04:00Interesting. I knew about Newton's religious obse...Interesting. I knew about Newton's religious obsessions, but had no idea that he was an astrology obsessive. It's curious how those things frequently appear together. My grandmother was a religious fundamentalist who adored Pat Robertson (that should give you an idea of how long he's been around). She also was obsessed with astrology. After she died, we found piles of star charts that she had made for all the members of the family and her friends.<BR/><BR/>I read somewhere that another architect designed a similar grandiose tomb monument for Voltaire, and had the temerity to actually send it to the aging philosophe.<BR/>Voltaire replied that he couldn't wait to be buried in it.<BR/><BR/>The poor old man eventually had to suffer his bones dug out of his nice quiet garden grave and hauled to Soufflot's Pantheon/Ste Genevieve in Paris in a big revolutionary spectacle.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-75139053057839894192008-07-02T05:25:00.000-04:002008-07-02T05:25:00.000-04:00Not least, Newton was obsessed with Astrolgy. For ...Not least, Newton was obsessed with Astrolgy. For every hundred of pages he wrote on "Science", he wrote a thousand on Astrology.<BR/><BR/>But we don't want to remember that one, do we ;=)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com