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  • In John Bainbridge

    …signs of impending disaster, in Antiprognosticon (1642) he recanted and vigorously denounced astrological superstition that based predictions on conjunctions of the planets and appearances of comets. His other publication includes the translation of ancient Greek astronomical works: Procli Sphaera et Ptolomaei de Hypothesibus Planetarum (1620; “The Sphere of Proclus and…

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