Artigo em revista científica
Tokens of the future: comets, astrology and politics in early modern Portugal
Luís Miguel Carolino (Carolino, Luís Miguel); Carlos Ziller Camenietzki (Camenietzki, C. Z.);
Título Revista
Cronos: Cuadernos valencianos de historia de la medicina y de la ciencia
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2006
Língua
Inglês
País
Espanha
Mais Informação
Web of Science®

Esta publicação não está indexada na Web of Science®

Scopus

Esta publicação não está indexada na Scopus

Google Scholar

Esta publicação não está indexada no Google Scholar

Abstract/Resumo
This paper examines a set oftreatises and observational reports on comets written by Portuguese astrologers/astronomers in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing on the links between natural philosophy, astrology and politics, it analyses the change in comet-based astrological predictions in Portugal. In the late sixteenth century, the appearance ofcomets gave rise to numerous astrological texts predicting a transcendental role for the Portuguese monarchy under the Bragan~ dynasty. Nevertheless, as the seventeenth century progressed, astrological causality gradually disappeared from comet treatises. Increasingly. the appearance of comets in skies afforded an opportunity to discuss only the physical nature and effects ofcomets. not judicial astrological forecasts. In this paper, we argue that the process of rationalising and centralising the political system together with major changes concerning conceptions of nature and new 'scientific' methods partially explain this change in astrological beliefs.
Agradecimentos/Acknowledgements
--
Palavras-chave
Registos de financiamentos
Referência de financiamento Entidade Financiadora
POCTI/IHCT/37709/2001 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia