Action at a distance was one of the key features of astrology. Once a thriving discipline, astrology in the early modern period entered a crisis that ultimately culminated in its marginalization from the domain of scholarly recognition. Critics of astrology took issue, among other things, with the causative process of the supposed astrological action at a distance – traditionally based on the light shed by celestial bodies – denying that light could be a conduit of astrological influence. In response to such criticisms, some astrologers attempted to explain astrological influence based on different theoretical and natural-philosophical foundations, as, for instance, by employing Cartesianism. This paper focuses on the so far-unpublished manuscript Laurenziana ASHB1530, Astrologia Cartesiana, by the German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer Peter Megerlin (1623–1686), a professor in Basel. It shows Megerlin’s eclectic use of Cartesian elements in his treatment of the natural-philosophical bases of astrology, paying particular attention to his attempt to explain astrological influence on corpuscularian grounds. It also contributes to the reconstruction of Megerlin’s biographical and scholarly profile, focusing on the significance of his engagement with Copernican cosmology and astrology in seventeenth-century Basel.

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用笛卡尔自然哲学解释占星术的影响：Peter Megerlin 的手稿 Astrologia Cartesiana（ASHB1530，约 1680 年）

远距离行动是占星术的主要特征之一。占星术曾经是一门蓬勃发展的学科，但在近代早期却陷入了一场危机，最终导致其在学术认可领域的边缘化。占星术的批评者对假设的占星术远距离作用的起因过程提出了质疑——传统上基于天体发出的光——否认光可能是占星术影响的管道。作为对此类批评的回应，一些占星家试图根据不同的理论和自然哲学基础来解释占星术的影响，例如，通过采用笛卡尔主义。本文重点关注迄今为止未发表的手稿 Laurenziana建筑业协会1530,笛卡尔占星术，由德国天文学家、数学家和占星家 Peter Megerlin（1623-1686），巴塞尔教授。它展示了梅格林在处理占星学的自然哲学基础时对笛卡尔元素的折衷使用，特别注意他试图解释占星学对微粒学基础的影响。它还有助于重建梅格林的传记和学术形象，重点关注他在 17 世纪巴塞尔参与哥白尼宇宙学和占星术的重要性。