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Astrologie, Kabbale et histoire dans les Curiositez inouyes (1629) de Jacques Gaffarel

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In 1629, a strange treatise was published in Paris: the Curiositez inouyes ("unheard-of curiosities"), a survey of the astrology of the ancient Hebrews and the talismanic art of the Persians. Its author, the Orientalist Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681), was a rising figure of French scholarship and a friend of Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653). The originality of his treatise, one of the last defences of astrology authored by a French scholar in the seventeenth century, lay in its antiquarian approach to knowledge based mainly on a corpus of rabbinic sources. In this article, I address one of the essential aspects of the Curiositez inouyes: the re-establishment of astrology based on the doctrines of the ancient Hebrews. I show how Gaffarel used, not without ambiguity, the rhetoric and resources of historical scholarship to introduce a new legitimisation of astrology through the Jewish Kabbalah. Through this analysis I wish to explore how the attitude toward Antiquity shaped the conception of astrology in early modern France.
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halshs-03525439, version 1 (24-02-2023)

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Jean Sanchez. Astrologie, Kabbale et histoire dans les Curiositez inouyes (1629) de Jacques Gaffarel. LIAS - Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, 2020, 47 (2), pp.89-117. ⟨10.2143/LIAS.47.2.3289800⟩. ⟨halshs-03525439⟩
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