but he returned to it again and again. I show here his own horoscope.
That remarkable character, Michael Servetus, the discoverer of the
lesser circulation, when a fellow student with Vesalius at Paris, gave
lectures upon judicial astrology, which brought him into conflict with
the faculty; and the rarest of the Servetus works, rarer even than
the "Christianismi Restitutio," is the "Apologetica disceptatio pro
astrologia," one copy of which is in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Nor
could the new astronomy and the acceptance of the heliocentric views
dislocate the popular belief. The literature of the seventeenth century
is rich in astrological treatises dealing with medicine.

(31) De Thou, Lib. LXII, quoted by Morley in Life of Jerome
Cardan, Vol. II, p. 294.

No one has ever poured such satire upon the mantic arts as did Rabelais
in chapter twenty-five of the third book of "Pantagruel." Panurge goes
to consult Her Trippa--the famous Cornelius Agrippa, whose opinion
of astrology has already been quoted, but who nevertheless, as court
astrologer to Louise of Savoy, had a great contemporary reputation.
After looking Panurge in the face and making conclusions by metoposcopy
and physiognomy, he casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a
branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining
rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to
necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future. While full of rare
humor, this chapter throws an interesting light on the extraordinary
number of modes of divination that have been employed. Small wonder that
Panurge repented of his visit! I show here the title-page of a popular
book by one of the most famous of the English astrological physicians,
Nicholas Culpeper.

Never was the opinion of sensible men on this subject better expressed
than by Sir Thomas Browne:(32) "Nor do we hereby reject or condemn a
sober and regulated Astrology; we hold there is more truth therein than
in ASTROLOGERS; in some more than many allow, yet in none so much
as some pretend. We deny not the influence of the Starres, but often
suspect the due application thereof; for though we should affirm that
all things were in all things; that Heaven were but Earth Celestified,
and earth but Heaven terrestrified, or that each part above had an
influence upon its divided affinity below; yet how to single out these
relations, and duly to apply their actions, is a wo