Renaissance Astrology (In Our Time)
1400 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology. In Act I Scene II of King Lear, the ne’er do well Edmund steps forward and rails at the weakness and cynicism of his fellow men:This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,when we are sick in fortune, - often the surfeitof our own behaviour, - we make guilty of ourdisasters the sun, the moon, and th
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1400
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Zheng He (1371)