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A Reading of John Milton's Horoscope
Author(s) -
Rusche Harry
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
milton quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1094-348X
pISSN - 0026-4326
DOI - 10.1111/j.1094-348x.1979.tb00076.x
Subject(s) - hindsight bias , astrology , the renaissance , history , interpretation (philosophy) , chart , literature , classics , philosophy , art history , art , psychology , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , cognitive psychology
Sometime around 1650, the astrologer John Gad‐bury cast a horoscope for John Milton, but we now have only the chart without any interpretation that Gadbury might have rendered. 1 With the help of the same kind of astrological texts available to Gadbury, I propose to interpret Milton's natal chart in the way that a Renaissance astrologer might. 2 Fortunately, I have the great advantage of hindsight, which shall play no small part in my “prediction” of what the future holds for John Milton.