Sunday, November 6, 2011

Astrology and Astronomy, Are They So Really Different?

By Ganesh Kevin


There are many people from the world that don't feel that astrology is a valid art - they will discount it as superstition and mumbo jumbo without the need of quite acquiring that good an understanding of what astrology really is.

Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most famous and accomplished scientists in the history in the modern world was a corporation believer from the properties and strengths of astrology, in fact once arguing around the validity of astrology he famously stated towards the noted astronomer and mathematician Sir Edmond Halley who had ridiculed his beliefs, "Sir, I have studied astrology, you've not."

And herein lies a factor - most in the individuals who dismiss astrology do so on the strength on the peripheral aspects on the science, without the need of ever definitely studying and trying to understand what astrology definitely is.

Ironically, for a lot of mankind's history, astrology and astronomy were classed as the exact same science, in fact it's only pretty recently that they had been split into numerous disciplines. During the formation of astrology as an art, it was impossible to be able to create astrological charts without also with a fair degree of knowledge of astronomy. Without the need of charts in the heavens, astrology would not have advanced significantly beyond the type that was practiced by ancient man.

In the period which could possibly be witnessed as the birth of contemporary astrology as we know it, the ancient Greeks had already begun to note the fundamental differences in between the disciplines. The words 'Astrologia' and 'Astronomia' were largely interchangeable towards the majority of persons and often would be used indiscriminately in conversation, nonetheless they had been not the exact same concept. Plato, the famous philosopher taught astronomia and he classed that this was a geometrical type of planetary phenomenon. However, knowledge from the differences between the 2 did not make any assumptions as to whether a single was right as well as the other not, they have been both fully accepted in society.

However, each disciplines started to become noticed as more than just different during the 'Age of Reason' (around 1700AD) a time which Immanuel Kant, the famous German philosopher described as "Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation in the human consciousness from an immature land of ignorance and error." This was the beginning of astronomy becoming observed as the physical behaviour on the cosmos over a purely mathematical and logical basis - a science that exists only in quantifiable measures including physics, chemistry, mathematics and so on. Astrology is a smaller amount quantifiable in how the influences how the celestial bodies have over a influence on a interaction on life can not be explained or proven through mathematical formulae.

As astronomy has moved on, it has diverged additional and additional away from astrology and as science advances and astronomers can understand to determine further and extra into the heavens, this divergence is set to continue.

There are fundamental differences in between astrology and astronomy and that essentially methods that though they each look towards heavens they are various and have grow to be increasingly incompatible in many ways.

Astronomers appear to realize the physics from the Universe, whereas astrologers use calculations for your position on the celestial bodies at particular times to drawn lines among astronomical events and corresponding earthly events. Whereas astronomers use accepted and clearly delineated scientific principles in their work, astrologers use an amassed knowledge and instinctive intuition in theirs.

Astrologers know that the Universe is basically harmonious and unchanging, astronomers know how the one of the characteristics of the Universe is that it's ever-expanding.

Astrologers know that the celestial bodies and their positioning within the heavens at any thing in time determines an individual's personality and future, astronomers know in which the planets and stars are from the heavens and how they scientifically relate to each other and Earth, but have discovered no quantifiable evidence to support astrological theory.

The only genuine point that astronomers will agree with astrologers with is that Earth is connected, an integral part in the fabric from the Universe and that our globe is component of the cohesive cosmos and the two aren't separate entities.

Astrology can't supply empirically proven explanations since what astrologers do just isn't based on the 'Known laws of nature', whereas whatever is recognized in astronomy is also proven. By the same token, presently a smaller amount is known for the Universe than is to be discovered. Hence, with our offer level of understanding we maybe can't dismiss everything else that has not yet been proven.

It is possibly a shame that astronomy and astrology seem being so incompatible, as they are both fundamental truths and have existed for as lengthy as each other and will each continue to exist as lengthy as you'll find stars in the skies. Astrologers don't disbelieve astronomers or mock their science, the other way about is less forgiving and quite a few astronomers cannot see any worth in astrology. However, over a day-to-day basis, much more men and women do have far more use for astrology than they do for astronomy. If you ask the majority from the general population to name all of the signs from the zodiac, more will be in a position to answer, than would be able to name all of the moons of Jupiter.




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