Burnett Charles
Warburg Institute, London.
Early Sci Med. 2002;7(3):198-213. doi: 10.1163/157338202x00117.
Abū Ma'shar (787-886) and al-Qābīsī (mid-10th century) were active astrologers and defenders of the scientific character of their discipline. They wrote works on criticisms brought forward against the discipline and challenged practitioners whom they considered as detrimental for the esteem and future fate of their science. Nevertheless, both writers can be seen as heirs to a single tradition of thought, which took its origins in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblios and developed largely independently of the religious philosophical beliefs of a specific community. The arguments developed for proving the scientific value of astrology are interesting in their own right, and merit further study not only by historians of science but also by historians of philosophy.
阿布·马沙尔（787 - 886年）和卡比西（10世纪中叶）是活跃的占星家，他们捍卫占星术学科的科学性。他们针对对该学科提出的批评撰写了著作，并对那些他们认为有损其学科声誉和未来命运的从业者提出了质疑。然而，这两位作者都可被视为单一思想传统的继承者，该传统起源于托勒密的《四书》，并且在很大程度上独立于特定社群的宗教哲学信仰而发展。为证明占星术的科学价值而提出的论点本身就很有趣，不仅值得科学史家，也值得哲学史家进一步研究。
