ASTROLOGY

study of the motions of heavenly bodies and their supposed influence on terrestrial events and human affairs. The science and art were first practised by the Chaldeans in Baby jon i a and As syria, who spread their knowledge to Egypt. The _ ancient Greeks, and even more the Romans, were convinced of the po ibility of divining the future by consulting the ished in spite of much opposition by the orthodox Christian Church, and a. continued to exercise great influence on European scientists and statesmen until Copernicus, by proving definitely that the earth is not the centre of the universe gave the impetus which severed the science of the stars, astronomy, from the still persistent art of astrology. ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY