http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#astrology Its history, especially in Hellenistic times, the <a href="renaissance.html">Renaissance</a>, and since 1900. <ul>Recommended: <li>William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.), <cite>Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe</cite> <li>Wayne Shumaker, <cite>The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance</cite> <li>David Ulansey, <cite>The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Brendan Dooley, <cite>Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics</cite> [<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7279.html">Blurb, introduction</a>] <li>N. M. Swerdlow (ed.), <cite>Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination</cite> </ul>