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Your Zodiac Sign Mattered in Medieval Times

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology, a new exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, takes a look at medieval manuscripts to showcase the importance of astrology to the period’s elites. Larisa Grollemond, an assistant curator at the museum, takes us through the impact of astrology on day-to-day decisions and the way it became tied up in the medieval obsession with humoral balances. Plus, we discuss how today’s astrology split from the modern science of astronomy. Rising Signs is on display at the Getty Museum through January 5, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/rising-signs/index.html  Recommended reading: How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-survive-mercury-in-retrograde/  E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter.  Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Larisa Grollemond, an assistant curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Our show is edited by Fonda Mwangi with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I can tell right away.

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We got Snowman.

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And Chris Evans.

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There's worst ways to go out and trying to save Santa Claus.

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Let's save Christmas.

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These days, science and magic are generally thought of as being diametrically opposed.

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Fact versus fiction, reason versus fantasy, modern sensibilities versus archaic misconceptions.

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But that hasn't always been the case.

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For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Fultman.

0:49.8

My guest today is Larissa Groldamond, assistant curator in the manuscripts department at the Getty

0:54.8

Museum in Los Angeles. She's behind an exhibit called Rising Signs, the medieval science of

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