Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.

Joining me today are historians Nicholas Campion and Patrick Curry, and we're going to be talking about

Patrick's landmark book on 17th century astrology titled Prophecy in Power,

astrology in early modern England, which was just recently republished.

So hey, Nick and Patrick, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

So this is an exciting moment to be talking with you both because this was a pretty significant book in terms of the history of astrology and in terms of historical discussions about astrology, especially in an academic context that was published in the mid to late 1980s, and you've just decided to republish it after all of these years, right?

Yeah, sure, we're doing a second edition through the Sophia Center press. I mean, it's substantially unchanged, we just have a new forward but Patrick's

text is completely unchanged we thought don't tamper with something which works

so well. So what year was the book originally published? The book was originally

published in 1989 and shall I give you a little bit of the background to it?

Please, I'd love to hear it.

Well, I did my PhD in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London in 1987.

I finished that in 1987.

And so I basically turned my thesis, not all of it, but most of it into the book on the same subject.

And that was how prophecy and power came to be published by Paul de Press in 1989. And of course that was nearly 40 years ago so it must have

some life in it because it's just been published in a second edition thanks to

the Sophia Center press with a new forward by Darrell Rutkin, a really excellent new forward.

And so that's how it came about from my point of view.

Yeah, and in the meantime, so much scholarship has been done on astrology and Nick, your also landmark two volume history of astrology came out in the late 2000s

titled a history of Western astrology volumes one and two which covered part of that period

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