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Videos
Learn about the prophecies of French astrologer Nostradamus.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A discussion of how astrology differs from astronomy.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
Zodiac wheel showing the 12 astrological constellations or signs from an illumination...
Courtesy British Library, from the British Library archive (Yates Thompson 31, f.48v)
Hellenistic-period bust of the Greek philosopher Plato; in the Museo Pio Clementino,...
© Steve Bisgrove—REX/Shutterstock.com
Find your Chinese zodiac sign and element based on your birth year in this chart.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
In astrology, the sign of the zodiac under which a person is born is of great significance.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley
In this illustration the symbols of the 27 Hindu nakshatra astrological...
© AstroVed.com/Shutterstock.com
Statues of the navagrahas (“nine planets”) at a temple in Andhra Pradesh,...
© Gudipudi Sree/Shutterstock.com
The Muslim astrologer Abū Maʿshar (Albumazar) doing astrological calculations, as...
The George Peabody Library/The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
Astrology, etching attributed to Parmigianino in the 16th century, printed...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927 (27.78.2(28)); www.metmuseum.org
Midwives assisting a birth while astrologers consult sky charts; woodcut relief print...
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Astronomical chart showing a crab forming the constellation Cancer; hand-colored...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-ds-00242)
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