who started or invented the whole concept of astrology?
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My friend, the speed and positions of planets were first discovered by "ARYA BHATT", a great indian mathematician and astrologer. \n\nAstrology is a part of indian mythology. It's described in hindu Vedas. one famous astrology book is written by Maharshi Bhrugu thousands of years ago. there are many GRANTHS on astrology.\n\nFor example, when gods and devils were doing SAMUDRA MANTHAN, AMRUT came out of the sea.  RAHU was in god's part but knowing that amrut has come out of sea, he parted ways and joined Devils to drink AMRUT that will make him immortal. Moon and Sun saw this and informed lord Vishnu, he immediately went after RAHU and cut his head off, but as RAHU has had AMRUT, he did not die, the head fell off in the opposite direction thus making the head KETU.  therefore you can always see RAHU and KETU in the opposite houses in horoscopes.\n\nThis is just a piece of details about ancient mythological story of Astrology.  \n\nIf you like the details provided by me please inform me back. Thanks.
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Genesis 1:14 reads: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.\n\nAccording to the nativity story, astrology was used to identify and locate the birth of Jesus.\n\nI believe it was the dependency on fortune tellers rather than the idea of astrology that was considered wrong.
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Sometimes they're uncanny in their accuracy; other times they hit a bit off the mark. Nearly always, horoscopes are good entertainment. But Astrology is far more complex than a daily horoscope-and it's not just for fun. \n\nContrary to its popular but erroneous reputation as a New Age subject, Astrology is actually an ancient science that predates both astronomy and psychology. Studied and used throughout the world for thousands of years, Astrology is the study of the interactions among the Stars and the Planets, based on intricate mathematical cycles.\n\nThe earliest known astrological records date back to Babylon, 1645 BC, and the earliest horoscope to 410 BC. Astrology's origins can also be traced to several other locations and cultures, including Egypt, which developed sophisticated timekeeping and calendar science; Greece, where Ptolemy authored influential astrological and astronomical texts; and Rome, where many of the most learned men-including two emperors-were astrologers who wrote laws and counseled citizens based on the Stars.\n\nDuring the Renaissance, when literacy became more widespread, almanacs began publishing astrological information for public consumption. Several notable figures of the era, including Galileo and Copernicus, were both practicing astrologers and founders of the modern scientific movement. Despite the seemingly easy relationship between Astrology and science, however, Astrology began to lose popular credibility when myriad predictions about the great conjunction of 1524 failed to "come true."\n\nAs the Scientific Revolution surged and astronomy gained respect, Astrology and various other arts fell by the wayside. Many individuals still practiced the art, however, and Astrology enjoyed small revivals in England in the 17- and 1800s. But it wasn't until the birth of Princess Margaret in 1930 that Astrology once again found widespread popularity. That year, the London Sunday Express ran an astrological profile of the princess to celebrate her birth-and so began the modern newspaper horoscope column.\n\nIn the 1950s, French astrologers Michel and Françoise Gauquelin used sophisticated statistical studies to link the positions of the Planets to human nature. Others, such as Dane Rudhyar, have expanded the study of Humanistic Astrology.
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Johann Castillon used the name cardioid for the first time, in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1741).\n\nHowever, he was not the first person who used it.  For example, it was studied by Roemer (1674) in an investigation for the best form of gear teeth. \n\nCardioid is a special case of limacon of Pascal: a family of curves studied and named after Etienne Pascal (1588-1640), father of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). \n\nI don't know whether they originally used polar co-ordinates which followed after the Cartesian system developed by Descartes in 1637. But given that the general formula for the limacon is a ± bcos(theta) or a ± bsin(theta), it's certainly possible.
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Hehe, try astrology :)
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yes, it is a science...\nbut i think it's more proper to say as "astrology" rather than "horoscope"...\nit is an ancient wisdom.. astrology can be used to predict/ see tendecies. you can apply it to an individu or apply it to global..\nits theory is based on observation.. things that happen in earth has correlation with things happen in the outer galaxy..\nas individu, it can give insight of your tendecies, understanding..\nAstrology here is more complex than just 12 signs (aries,etc), that is just what we called "sun sign".. we still have moon, mercurius, till pluto sign. located in 12 house.. each planets can interact each other...
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http://astrology.yahoo.com
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Yes. Key example, the Copernican theories. He was the first to "theorize" that the Earth revolved around the sun, but the Catholic Church thought this to be a "conspiracy" against the Church. As we all know, Copernicus turned out to be correct, and his 99% theory beat out the Church's 1% conspiracy, to become 100% fact.
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Under the ptolemaic model, you had to come up with a very complex orbit for the planets to make it fit within the concepts of what we understood as motion (remember this was also pre-Newtonian mechanics).\n\nUnder the Copernical model, it was very simple but also troubling, that all bodies orbited the sun, except for the moon which troubled again because it didn't.\n\nThe final nail in the ptolemaic model was the discovery by Gallileo of the moons of Jupiter, which dashed that theory and extended Copernicus's model, which was finally all put together with Newtonian mechanics.
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matahari is right, it was Aristarchus of Samos. But his ideas were not accepted and his writings were lost. We only know about him from the writings of Ptolemy, who did not believe in heliocentrism himself. The idea was later reinvented by Copernicus, whose writings were preserved and his ideas eventually accepted.
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The Copernican revolution suggested to some that the stars were in fact other suns at great distances away, with worlds of their own. An Englishman named Thomas Digges promoted this idea in a work published in 1573
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astrology is the study of the stars and planets and horoscopes is predicting someones fate by using the position of the planets and stars at a certain time.
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A sampling of famous astronomers\nAstronomer Contribution \nHipparchus and Ptolemy Determined the positions of about 1,000 bright stars, tried to explain the puzzles of astronomy without refuting only believed geocentric model of universe and classified stars by magnitude. \nAristarchus of Samos First known person to propound the heliocentric model of universe. Attempted to calculate the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. \nNasir al-Din al-Tusi This Persian astronomer gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical trigonometry. Made very accurate tables of planetary movements and named many stars. Developed the Tusi-couple which resolves linear motion into the sum of two circular motions. He also calculated the value of 51' for the precession of the equinoxes and contributed to construction and usage of astrolabe. \nNicolaus Copernicus First exponent of heliocentrism in modern times. \nTycho Brahe Did develop many important astronomical instruments, and achieved accurate measurments of the heavens by improving scentific methodology and by designing instruments on a large scale. His measurements of the orbit of Mars were very important to the development of astronomy. \nJohannes Kepler Suggested the elliptical orbits of planets, and propounded his Laws of Planetary Motion. \nGalileo Galilei Was the first to use the telescope to observe the sky. Condemned to house arrest for his discoveries by Inquisitional edict, which was lifted 359 years later by Pope John Paul II. \nIsaac Newton Published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), containing the "Newton's laws of motion", which are fundamental to mechanical physics, and which explained Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Predicted the orbits of the planets. \nSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Extensive work on the internal mechanisms of stars, particularly known for determining the effect of special relativity on stars, including being the first to calculate the Chandrasekhar limit, which he did, without a calculator, on a boat journey. \nHenrietta Swan Leavitt Catalogued Cepheid variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds, in 1912 discovered the relationship between luminosty and periodicity in Cepheids -- leading to Hertzprung's later work. \nEjnar Hertzsprung determined the distance to several Cepheids, when Cepheids were detected in other galaxies such as the Andromeda galaxy, the distance to those galaxies could then be determined. \nEdwin Hubble Discovered the expansion of the universe. (Hubble's Law) The Hubble Orbiting Space Telescope was named in his honor.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked beside Euler, Newton and Archimedes as one of history's greatest mathematicians.
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the best astrology program is Janus you can download a free demo. it lasts three months it is the most highly accurate program i have ever used
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All of them are sciences or Arts. . But people master these subjects by reading books, or practice under a teacher of directly. There is not institution to teach these. But about 80 % of the person who are doing this are fake and take advantage of the people who are suffering in their lift for some thing or other and they look upon someone who give word of encoragement through these subect. The actual meaning of these sciences are -\n\nASTROLOGY - Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial bodies and related information is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing knowledge about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial events. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer, or, less often, an astrologist. Historically, the term mathematicus was used to denote a person proficient in astrology, astronomy, and mathematics. Although the two fields share a common origin, modern astronomy is entirely distinct from astrology. While astronomy is the scientific study of astronomical objects and phenomena, the practice of astrology is concerned with the correlation of heavenly bodies (which historically involved measurement of the celestial sphere) with earthly and human affairs. Astrology is variously considered by its proponents to be a symbolic language, a form of art, science, or divination. The scientific community generally considers astrology to be a pseudoscience or superstition as it has failed empirical tests in controlled studies.\n\nPALMISTRY - Chiromancy or cheiromancy, (Greek cheir, “hand”; manteia, “divination”), is the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palmistry, palm-reading, chirology or hand analysis. The practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practise chiromancy are generally called chiromancers, palmists, palm readers or chirologists.\nModern palmistry can trace its roots back to Roma fortune tellers and Indian mystics, but often modern palmists combine traditional predictive techniques with psychology, holistic healing, and alternative methods of divination.\n\nTAROT CARDS - The tarot are a set of cards displaying allegorical representations originally used as playing cards and later for divination. Most modern tarot decks consist of 78 cards split into two major groups:\nThe major arcana, consisting of 22 trump cards (sometimes referred to as keys):
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Plato, I guess. the Question is too vague. Plato's geocentric system was refuted by Copernicus, but the Catholic Church refused to accept Copernicus's findings.