Vanitas vanitatum et super omnia vanitas: The astronomer Heinrich Selder and a newly discovered fourteenth-century critique of astrology

A previously unknown treatise on historical chronology (Tractatus de tempore dominice annunciationis, nativitatis et passionis), written by a southern German author between 1371 and 1378, preserves an unusually sophisticated and penetrating scholarly critique of astrology. The main purpose of this a...