Note 51 — Chapter III
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By astrology and the calculation of horoscopes must not be here understood the practice of judicial astrology, which was regarded by all the Anglo-Saxon prelates as a forbidden art; but, as Lingard supposes, studies connected with the Zodiac, and the art of dialling, here called horoscopii computatio; an art much in vogue among early scholars, and which formed one of the scientific recreations of Boethius.