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Astrology had a sheer mythy size, a consequence that could make Caesar or Lear look up to the heavens. The skies were full of promises and dangers. In February of 1524, Europeans lived in terror that a conjunction of all the planets in the watery sign of Pisces would bring...
Astrology was the machinery of the universe. All the details of the world were wired to the vibrations of the heavens. The membranes of history thrummed to astral music. How cozy that stars and planets should intervene so intimately on earth.
Perhaps the American space program, currently languishing under a scarcity of both public money and goodwill, is a victim of a President who believes more can be learned about the heavens from a back alley palm reader than from an orbiting telescope. Perhaps Reagan believes that exploring the stars will...
The Greeks, the original Olympians, who never have won a winter medal, led the parade as always. In the 57-nation caravan there was the normal quota of Christmas elves and bright-parkaed snowmen, but a new theme emerged: intrigue. Fedoras and spy-length overcoats were the fashion of France...
When University of Arizona Astronomer Richard Elston first aimed a newly assembled infrared-light detector at the heavens last spring, he was hoping to find objects so faint that they had never been seen by human eyes. Almost at once, his specially equipped telescope picked up something astronomers have been...