Visions of the future : almanacs, time, and cultural change, 1775-1870 /

Historians have long puzzled over the 'death' of astrology at the end of the 17th century. Perkins demonstrates that astrology found expression in almanacs, and goes on to consider why predicting the future became categorized as superstition.

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Main Author: Perkins, Maureen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1996.
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by Perkins, Maureen
Published 1996
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