Academy of Astrology

A prince who cast charts: astrology at the Portuguese court in the 1600s

· Considerations

This is an earlier address of our article on astrology at the seventeenth-century Portuguese court, kept because it still receives links.

It covers the heir to the restored throne — who collected charts, made political predictions and was tutored by a Jesuit who studied the subject himself — and what a royal nativity was actually read for.

Read the full article → · Astrology and the Jesuits