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Dive into the Scientific Revolution! Discover how new ideas, observations, and experiments fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the cosmos and human knowledge.
The rise of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries led to a clear separation of astronomy, focused on empirical observation, from astrology, which became increasingly viewed as a pseudoscience.
Before the Age of Enlightenment, the study of celestial bodies encompassed both their physical movements and their supposed influence on earthly events. Many famous astronomers, like Johannes Kepler, also practiced astrology during their time.
