Jean-Baptiste Morin, arguably Europe’s most noted astrologer and anti-Copernican, was a key figure in a bitter controversy involving Pierre Gassendi, Ismael Boulliau, and a dozen other notable savants. News of the dispute captivated Learned Europe for two decades (1630-1650). It was not a backwater affair. After a humiliating quarrel on longitude, Morin expressed his anger by publicly pitting astrology against Copernicanism, by counterpointing the Copernican Question and the Astrology Question in matters of theology and cosmology. His strategy failed. Capitalizing on Morin’s challenge, the New Science not only turned a bitter personal dispute into a fruitful public debate, it firmly established its autonomy and authority. In the end, astrology was not simply marginalized – it did not die from collateral damage – and it did not die a natural death. The death of astrology was by public execution.

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在占星术和哥白尼主义之间：莫林 – 加森迪 – 布里奥


让-巴蒂斯特·莫兰（Jean-Baptiste Morin）可以说是欧洲最著名的占星家和反哥白尼主义者，他是皮埃尔·加森迪、伊斯梅尔·布利奥和其他十几个著名学者的激烈争论中的关键人物。这场争端的消息在二十年（1630-1650 年）中吸引了欧洲学习者。这不是一个死水的事情。在对经度的羞辱性争吵之后，莫林公开将占星术与哥白尼主义进行较量，在神学和宇宙学问题上对立哥白尼问题和占星学问题，以此表达他的愤怒。他的策略失败了。新科学利用莫林的挑战，不仅将一场激烈的个人争论变成了富有成果的公开辩论，而且牢固地确立了其自主性和权威性。最后，占星术并没有被简单地边缘化——它没有死于附带损害——也没有死于自然死亡。