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Astrology vs Iatromathematical - What's the difference?

astrology | iatromathematical |

As a noun astrology

is divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body|celestial bodies.

As an adjective iatromathematical is

(obsolete) pertaining to a practice of medicine in conjunction with astrology.

astrology

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Divination]] about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of [[celestial body, celestial bodies.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales , Harleian manuscript:
  • a pore scoler / had lerned art but al his fantasye / was torned for to lerne astrologye […].
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 274:
  • For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
  • * 2012 , The Guardian , (headline), 7 Feb 2012:
  • Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.

    Synonyms

    * , astromancy

    See also

    * astronomy

    iatromathematical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to a practice of medicine in conjunction with astrology.
  • *, II.i.4.1:
  • Paracelsus goes farther, and will have his physician predestinated to this man's cure, this malady, and time of cure, the scheme of each geniture inspected, gathering of herbs, of administering, astrologically observed; in which Thurnesserus and some iatromathematical professors are too superstitious in my judgment.
  • Pertaining to a theory or practice of medicine founded on mathematical principles.