| | History of astrology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Astrology is not limited to (additional info and facts about Western astrology) Western astrology alone, which by itself has dozens of branches and various offshoots. |
 | | The study of astrology and the belief in it, as part of astronomy, is found in a developed form among the ancient (The ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written) Babylonians; and directly or indirectly through the Babylonians, it spread to other nations. |
 | | This spread of astrology was concomitant with the rise of a genuine scientific phase of (The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole) astronomy in Babylonia itself. |
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