Magic and Medicine: The casebooks of history’s most notorious astrologer doctors

A ten-year project to study and digitise some 80,000 cases recorded by two famous astrological physicians has opened a wormhole into the everyday worries and desires of people who lived 400 years ago.
Tumble down the Casebooks Project rabbit-hole here: casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/
/ @casebooksproject9389

[@heathermcvey9660]

Horary astrology is alive and well today. There's a lot of material published, which is excellent and much appreciated by modern day astrologers I'm sure! I am curious as to whether you worked with any astrologers when looking through the cases. I'm surprised though that William Lily isn't mentioned anywhere that I can see, as a prominent horary practitioner of the 17th century, or the work of Nicholas Culpepper, both of whom published hugely important texts.

[@daphnecarpenter2794]

More videos like this please ♥️

[@marcosrissi]

Is this archive available to the public? If so where and how to have access?

[@adennoorullah1626]

this is similar to health and the people spec from gcse aqa history

[@leolombardi1534]

Do I see vedic charts?

[@heathermcvey9660]

No, western astrologers used square style charts until relatively recently.

[@neekerbreeker]

Wow! I'm so glad I stumbled onto this. Human medical history is fascinating from so many angles, not just the scientific development. I can't wait to look at the site. Thank you; this must have been an incredibly massive effort to digitize these casebooks!

[@samsungjoel13rosales13]

👌magnífico

[@SpaceFairyness]

I see doctors handwriting has always been terrible- perhaps the greatest mystery is how they could understand it😂

[@rogerlucky2222]

Yessed yessed gods and goddesses peace hotep yo .

[@TBD3.0]

Well any claims coming from this institution I would take it with a grain of salt. I do like the back ground music though sets the listener in a spooky trans lol talk about manipulation lol and the in and out visual clips are hilarious lol they probably used Final Cut Pro to edit this video lol I wonder if it was a student project for "credit"? lol or did they actually mustard the strength to do the right thing to actually pay someone to create this video? lol we'll never know lol the fortune tellers are still around lol especially in government lol

[@ericbland2]

The moon does NOT effect the tides.