Horoscopes and public spheres : essays on the history of astrology Introduction: horoscopes and history Horoscopes and the public sphere in antiquity What was Agrippina waiting for The Emperor Hadrian in the horoscopes of Antigonus of Nicaea The possible survival of Babylonian astrology in the fifth century CE : a discussion of historical sources Medieval astrology : Muslim and Jewish discourse Zoroastrian historical astrology Circular motions : private pleasure and public prognostication in the nativities of the Mughal Emperor Akbar The horoscope of Iskandar Sultan as a cosmological vision in the Islamic world Historical horoscopes of Israel : Abraham bar Riyya Abraham ibn Ezra and Yosef ben Eliezer The use of horoscopes in Renaissance and early modern Europe Various uses of horoscopes : astrological practices in early modern Europe Reading health in the stars : politics and medical astrology in Renaissance Milan Evidence and conjecture in Cardanos horoscope collections The function of horoscopes in biographical narrative : Cardano and after J.W.A. Pfaff and the rediscovery of astrology in the age of romanticism