John Booker (astrologer)

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John Booker (1603–1667) was an English astrologer, respected in that career for over 30 years. In the 1640s he was appointed licenser of mathematical publications, and so in effect a censor of astrological works, for the Stationers' Company.[1]

  1. ^ Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1973), p. 363.