Astrologer Collection

Albertus, 1193-1280. Creator: Anon
Albertus, 1193-1280, unknown date

Adams, Evangeline S. portrait photograph, 1912 Apr. 29. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Adams, Evangeline S. portrait photograph, 1912 Apr. 29

Thomas Campanella, 1658. Creator: Balthasar Moncornet
Thomas Campanella, 1658

Portrait of Cardanus, published 1574. Creators: Unknown, Johannes Sambucus
Portrait of Cardanus, published 1574

"Galliotti, the Astrologer, shewing Louis XI. the First Specimen of Printing"... 1850. Creator: W. T. Green
Exhibition of the National Institution - No. 45. "Galliotti, the Astrologer, shewing Louis XI. the First Specimen of Printing" - painted by R. S. Lauder, R.S.A. 1850

I. Newton, (1642-1727), 1830. Creator: Unknown
I. Newton, (1642-1727), 1830. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

Two astrologers and a boy, from the Scherzi, ca. 1743-50

Frontispiece for the Sacred Cosmologia (Title with Astrologers). Creator: Jacques Callot
Frontispiece for the Sacred Cosmologia (Title with Astrologers)

Paracelsus, (1493-1541), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Paracelsus, (1493-1541), 1830. Paracelsus (1493-1541) Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance, credited as the father of toxicology

Sr. K. Digby, (1603-1665), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Sr. K. Digby, (1603-1665), 1830. Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) English courtier and diplomat, natural philosopher, astrologer and leading Roman Catholic intellectual

Dee, (1527-1609), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Dee, (1527-1609), 1830. John Dee (1527-1609) English/Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I

Ashmole, (1617-1692), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Ashmole, (1617-1692), 1830. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy, a royalist during the English Civil War

Thomas Allen, (1542-1632), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Thomas Allen, (1542-1632), 1830. Thomas Allen (1542-1632) English mathematician and astrologer, educated at Trinity College, Oxford. After an engraving by James Bretherton

Seni with the body of Wallenstein, 26 February 1634, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Seni with the body of Wallenstein, 26 February 1634, (1936). Seni An Der Leiche Wallensteins, 26 Februar 1634. The Italian astrologer and physician Gian Battista Seni with the corpse of Wallenstein

A Dyback, or Astrologer, 1804. Creator: Franz Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824)
A Dyback, or Astrologer, from Costumes of India by E. Orme, 1804 (coloured etching). When a child is born in some areas of India, the Dyback or Dybukk makes calculations about their futures; here

Arabian astrologers, 1513 (late 19th century). Copy of an illustration from In Somnium Sciopinis (Commentary on the Dream of Scipio) by Macrobius, (Venice 1513), used in A History of Magic

An astrologer casting a horoscope, 1617 (late 19th century). Copy of an illustration from Utriusque Cosmi Historia by Robert Fludd, (Oppenheim 1617), used in A History of Magic, late 19th century

William Lilly, English astrologer, 1647 (late 19th century). Lilly (1602-1681) aroused controversy in 1666 for having supposedly predicted the Great Fire of London 14 yaers before it happened

Wallenstein warned, 1882. Artist: Brend amour, Richard (1831-1915)
Wallenstein warned, 1882. Private Collection

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630, 1934. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution

The Credulous Lady and Astrologer, 1786. Artists: John Raphael Smith, Peter Simon
The Credulous Lady and Astrologer, 1786. After John Raphael Smith (1751-1812). From The Connoisseur Vol. XX. [Otto Limited, London, 1908]

The Astrologer, c19th century. Artist: J Demannez
The Astrologer, c19th century. A Victorian view of a 16th-century practitioner of astrology

The Moon, tarot card, 14th century, (1870)
The Moon, tarot card from the Charles VI or Gringonneur deck, 14th century, (1870). Taken from a deck in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, Paris

John Napier, Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer, (1870). Artist:s Freeman
John Napier, Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer, (1870). Napier (1550-1617) is most remembered as the inventor of logarithms and the calculation tool known as Napiers Bones

Seni at the Dead Body of Wallenstein, 1855. Artist: Piloty, Carl Theodor von (1826-1886)
Seni at the Dead Body of Wallenstein, 1855. Found in the collection of the Neue Pinakothek, Munich

John Evans, 18th century Welsh astrologer

Ebenezer Sibly, British astrologer and physician, late 18th century. The vignette beneath the portrait shows a physician taking a patients pulse by the wayside

Lucas Gaurico, Italian astronomer, astrologer and mathematician, 16th century. Artist: Theodor de Bry
Lucas Gaurico, Italian astronomer, astrologer and mathematician, [16th century]. Gaurico (1476-1558) was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Ferrara in 1531 and became Bishop of Civitata in 1545

Nostradamus, 16th century French physician and astrologer, 1725. Portrait of Nostradamus or Michel de Nostredame (1503-1556) who wrote a series of famous but vague prophecies

A German medal depicting Paracelsus, 16th century
A German medal depicting Paracelsus (11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) from the British Museums collection

Antonius de Monte Ulmi (fl1384-1390), Italian physician, necromancer, magician and astrologer, 1493. Antonius was physician to Francesco the Younger (1393-1406), despot of Carrara

Edward Kelley, English astrologer and alchemist, c1790. Kelley (1555-1597) with his assistant raising a spirit in a churchyard

Astrologers preparing a horoscope, 1617-1619. From the title page of section on casting horoscopes in Utriusque cosmi historia, Oppenheim, [1617-19]

William Lilly (1602-1681), English astrologer, 1673. Lilly was the model for Sidrophel in Samuel Butlers satire Hudibras, 1663-1678. Portrait engraving from Lillys Merlini Anglici Ephemeris

Bernard Abattia, 16th century French astrologer, 1572. Portrait from his Prognostication sur le marriage de Henry, roy de Navarre, et de Marguerite de France. (Paris, 1572)

Dr Faustus (1488-1541) conjuring up Mephistopheles. Faust formed subject of dramas by Christopher Marlowe and Goethe. Goethe version basis for Gounods opera

Nicholas Culpepper (1616-54) English physician, herbalist and astrologer Frontispiece from his School of Physickshowing him with hand on a skull and with blank horoscope chart. Copperplate engraving

Prediction of Nostradamus from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

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