I mean the name astrology is confusing, a remnant from ancient times, when astronomy and astrology were one. Geology, topology, biology,etc all are sciences. So, is the name astrology correct? I propose "astromancy". Do you agree?
2007-06-17 22:00:18 · 7 answers · asked by Dimitrios 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Astrology and astronomy were, indeed intermingled once upon a time. Now there is a clear division between them. I like your term, "astromancy," because the word "astrology" does sound more scientific than the subject deserves today. BTW, it has been tested many times and under controlled conditions. It fails every time to provide reliable information and is chicanery or superstitious nonsense just like tarot or reading entrails or using a Ouija board. It is most definitely mystical divination because there is no reasonable theoretical framework for it. So I like "astromancy." Now, how to get it accepted. Hmmm, not so easy.
2007-06-18 00:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Brant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the word astrology means the study of stars and astrologist dont actually do any studying, as it isn´t even close to being science, then why not take the word away from them? All they do is romanticizing about how love is written in the stars so the word astromancy would be much more suited for the astrologists. Or maybe astromantics...
2007-06-17 22:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suppose astrology would mean study of the stars, and astromancy would mean divination from the stars.
I'm not sure that astrology is, strictly speaking, divination though. I thought it was more study of humans through the stars (by invoking "as above so below"). I'm not sure what the word for that would be.
Astric Anthropology?
2007-06-17 22:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by John Dee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Your Daily Horoscope" is indeed chicanery, and put forth, if not by charlatans, by people who are seriously ethically challenged. Were you to devote some time and scientific method to the subject of astrology you would find that such offerings are not astrology, and that astrology is indeed a science. Had Isaac Newton not studied astrology, it is doubtful that we would have a Law of Universal Gravitation, and he would have had less need to invent the calculus. Kepler, the astronomer, arrived at an empirical formulation of three laws of planetary motion, which he was unable to prove. Newton, the astrologer, derived those three laws from his theory of universal gravitation using the calculus. Check out the history of tide tables with an open mind, and you will find that they have always been the work of the astrologer.
2007-06-17 23:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No astrology is the correct term if you are taking about science because the suffix logy means academic study of. Whereas the suffix nomy means regulating arrangement. So Astrology is the academic study of the stars and astronomy looks for the meaning of stars arrangement. Astronomy was only the same as astrology in ancient times because they didn't see the difference between science and folklore.
2007-06-17 22:12:15 · answer #5 · answered by J 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
astrology astromancy
2016-02-02 04:11:17 · answer #6 · answered by Hagen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-06-17 22:03:30 · answer #7 · answered by pilljills 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋