Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.71
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.71
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c20.71
The stars are consulted and the astrologer opens his books. But it is not altogether an idle superstition, that plants ripen and grow faster under some of these changes. It was probably with more reason, than we are aware of, that the stars were formerly consulted even in Europe, before the farmer committed his seed to the ground. It was strictly recommended that they should not begin to sow before the setting of the stars.28 They had in Europe, as well as in India, astrologers, to foretell the seasons, and to write horoscopes.