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Tokens of the future: comets, astrology and politics in early modern Portugal

Authors: Carolino, Luis Miguel; Ziller Camenietzki, Carlos;

Tokens of the future: comets, astrology and politics in early modern Portugal

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[PT] Neste artigo analisa-se um conjunto de publicaçoes e registos manuscritos de observaçoes de cometas escrito por astrólogos/astrónomos portugueses no final do século XVI e durante o século XVII. Enfatizando as relarçoes entre filosofia natural, astrologia e política, este artigo propoe uma análise sobre a evoluçao dos prognósticos astrológicos em Portugal com base na literatura cometária. Em finais do século XVI, o aparecimento de cometas estava na origem de um numeroso conjunto de textos astrológicos prognosticando um papel transcendental para a monarquia portuguesa sob a dinastia de Bragança. Contudo, à medida que o século XVII progredia, a causalidade astrológica foi desaparecendo dos tratados cometários. De forma crescente, a observaçao de cometas nos céus originou apenas uma discussao sobre a natureza e os efeitos fisicos destes fenómenos, ignorando-se as previçoes astrológicas. Neste artigo, defendemos que o processo de racionalizaçao e centralizaçao do sistema político português e a difusao de novas concepçoes sobre a natureza e sobre os métodos 'científicos' explicam parcialmente esta alteraçao na crença astrológica.

[EN] This paper examines a set of treatises and observational reports on comets written by Portuguese astrologers/astronomers in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing on the links between natural philosophy, astrology and politics, it analyses the change in comet-based astrological predictions in Portugal. In the late sixteenth century, the appearance of comets gave rise to numerous astrological texts predicting a transcendental role for the Portuguese monarchy under the Bragança dynasty. Nevertheless, as the seventeenth century progressed, astrological causality gradually disappeared from comet treatises. Increasingly, the appearance of comets in skies afforded an opportunity to discuss only the physical nature and effects of comets, not judicial astrological forecasts. In this paper, we argue that the process of rationalising and centralising the political system together with major changes concerning conceptions of nature and new 'scientific' methods partially explain this change in astrological beliefs.

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