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The Zodiac | Magic and Medicines #14
Magic and Medicines is BACK for it's second series, and in this episode Eleanor talks us through the ancient origins and subsequent history and major developments of the Zodiac.
We start by chatting through how the Zodiac is divided, including what the 'Celestial Sphere' is, and how the Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians used Sidereal Time to inform their agrarian calendar systems.
After that, we're off to the races, exploring how Ancient Greek's like Ptolemy and the wise astronomers of the Islamic Golden Age developed and refined the Zodiac and the associations with its signs. This, in…
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