History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.285.5

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VIII) says that everybody in the Renaissance period in the West believed to, some extent in astrology. In ‘Stars above us’ by Prof. E. Zinner, Tycho Brahe is quoted as saying that he prepared every year an astrological forecast for his king (p. 76). Even Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler practised astrology themselves or countenanced its practice. Bacon was prepared to say that there was no fatal necessity in the stars, but they rather incline than compel Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos reigned supreme for about 1400 years and is even now a work of great authority for those who believe in astrology. It may interest the reader to know that the great German poet, dramatist and philosopher, Goethe⁸²² (1749–1832), begins his Memoirs by mentioning the aspects of planets at his birth.