Skyscript Astrology Forum

For the second year running, Lund University (Sweden) is offering a five-week summer course (in Swedish) on The History of Astrology: from Antiquity to the New Age. More information can be found here.

Martin Gansten wrote:More information can be found here.

In Swedish, though.

Allow me to attempt to translate, Richard:

"Astrology - the doctrine of the connection between the celestial bodies' movements and human existence - has, during its history of several thousand years, constantly navigated the borderland between science and religion.

In this course, we follow astrology's development from its roots in Mesopotamia through the Greek-speaking world to Persia, India and mediaeval Europe, its decline after the 1600s and its return in modern times. We see how its ideas have been adapted to different cultural thought systems and to world religions such as Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but sometimes also have been challenged and denounced by them."

Yes. You need to speak Swedish (or Danish or Norwegian) in order to follow the course. Here's a quick-and-dirty English translation of the blurb:

In the course of its history, stretching over several millennia, astrology ? the doctrine of connections between the motion of the heavenly bodies and human existence ? has moved in the borderland between science and religion. In this course we follow the development of astrology from its Mesopotamian roots through the Greek-speaking world to Persia, India and medieval Europe, its decline following the 17th century and its return in modern times. We see how its ideas have been adapted to different cultural systems of thought and to world religions like Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but have also sometimes challenged and been condemned by them.

Philip Graves wrote:Allow me to attempt to translate, Richard:

Our posts crossed. Thanks for the input, Philip!

Our translations were almost identical to the word, Martin, but I notice that you have anglicised the possessives more thoroughly than I have, and altered the word order slightly too to make it read better in English! (Oh, and I failed to notice that utmanat was not in the passive form, unlike the other verbs in that sentence.) I hope you get a good response to the summer's course offering.

Thanks a lot, you two!

Philip wrote:Our translations were almost identical to the word, Martin, but I notice that you have anglicised the possessives more thoroughly than I have, and altered the word order slightly too to make it read better in English!

Well to me, Martin it's longer, more similar to Italian tendency to use many words. Philip's is shorter, for us it's difficult to be so short.

In every case it should be a nice course, hope Martin will post some note after.

margherita

margherita wrote:Well to me, Martin it's longer, more similar to Italian tendency to use many words. Philip's is shorter, for us it's difficult to be so short.

I admit it: my version was longer than Philip's by 4 words.

In every case it should be a nice course, hope Martin will post some note after.

As I'll be teaching it, I may not be the best person to offer an impartial review. But it went quite well last summer and seemed to be appreciated by the students.