
Chaldean Astrology/Astronomy (The Great Chaldeans Invented Astronomy) علم التنجيم علم الفلك الكلداني The present distinction between astronomy and astrology is only relatively recent. In fact, most of those considered to be the founders of modern scientific astronomy, including Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) and Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) were competent astrologers. The origins of astrology lie long before these intellectual giants however, and although the starry heavens have been used by man as a guide since time immemorial, the art now designated as astrology is considered to have originated with the Chaldeans, in Babylon, Mesopotamia, (now Iraq) around the fourth millennium BC. It was practiced in the temples, where it was blended with religious elements and was an important resource for farmers as well as physicians. It is thought to have spread to Egypt around the third millennium BC. Spread of Chaldean Astrology into Egypt, Greece, and Rome CHALDEAN astrology was diffused far and wide before the fall of Babylon in the sixth century BC, and it long survived that historic event. Before the beginning of the Christian Era, Babylonian astrological notions had spread into Egypt, Greece, and Rome. WF Albright, in the following statement, gives a very brief and comprehensive summary of the facts about it: "The scientific importance of the Chaldaean astronomical records was well known to Aristotle, who commissioned his pupil Callisthenes to <b>...</b>
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