Ann Geneva is a doctoral candidate in English history and the history of science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is also publicity manager of Yale University Press in London.
William Lilly was the first to produce a major textbook of astrology in the English language, at a time when the truth of astrology was almost universally recognised. At their peak in the 1650s...
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