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What's the difference between astrology and astronomy in two minutes or less

Author
Mary Stewart Adams
Published
Tue 19 May 2020
Episode Link
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mary-stewart-adams/episodes/Whats-the-difference-between-astrology-and-astronomy-in-two-minutes-or-less-ee9opj

So what’s the difference between astrology and astronomy? Astrology refers to the ‘astro-logos’ or star word, that the ancients experienced in the movements of planets and stars around the Earth. The 'astro-nomia' of the scientific revolution concerned itself not with divine spiritual beings, but with the physical properties of celestial objects, and things like gravitational force or the distance of objects and the speed of light, and our physical, rather than spiritual, origins.

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