He gives in it some sixty-seven nativities, remarkable for the events they foretell, with an exposition.

One of the accusations brought against him was that he had "attempted to subject to the stars the Lord of the stars and cast our Saviour's horoscope."(31) Cardan professed to have abandoned a practice looked upon with disfavor both by the Church and by the universities, but he returned to it again and again.

I show here his own horoscope.
That remarkable character, Michael Servetus, the discoverer of the lesser circulation, when a fellow student with Vesalius at Paris, gave lectures upon judicial astrology, which brought him into conflict with the faculty; and the rarest of the Servetus works, rarer even than the "Christianismi Restitutio," is the "Apologetica disceptatio pro astrologia," one copy of which is in the Bibliotheque Nationale.

Nor could the new astronomy and the acceptance of the heliocentric views dislocate the popular belief.

The literature of the seventeenth century is rich in astrological treatises dealing with medicine.
(31) De Thou, Lib.