Familiar To All: William Lilly & Astrology In The Seventeenth Century - Derek Parker

In this fascinating and extensively researched biography of William Lilly, Derek Parker probes the forces which maintained and even enhanced the astrologer's standing in society under the Stuarts. It presents a colourful picture of the social life of the time and of astrology's last great stand as a science. 

In an age rife with catastrophic forebodings, Lilly watched at close quarters Londoners flee from epidemics, and other political upheavals. Although later maligned for the panic they inspired in the populace, astrologers in the mid-seventeenth century - in particular William Lilly - were held in awe at the centre of the nation's frail fabric.

Hardcover.