Curated by thrice · 6 books
Reading path
Not horoscopes — the strange, serious history of humanity's oldest attempt to read meaning in the sky, from Babylon to Kepler.
Benson Bobrick
Astrology's full sweep, from Babylon to the tabloids.
Arthur Koestler
How cosmology grew out of astrology — Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo.
James A. Connor
Kepler the astronomer was also Kepler the astrologer. A great biography.
Joshua Gilder, Anne-Lee Gilder
The bitter rivalry of Tycho Brahe and Kepler — science's messiest divorce.
Richard Tarnas
The intellectual case for archetypal astrology, argued like philosophy.
James Herschel Holden
The scholarly deep-dive, for when you're ready to go full academic.
