532: astronomy versus Astrology May 23, 2016
Of the similar words 'astronomy' and 'astrology', one was created just
to mean 'study of stars' but be distinct from the other. 'Astrology',
the older of the two, denotes the practice of 'astronomy', in that it
was used for predicting natural happenings and other such things, but it
later took the meaning of the use of the stars to predict
human-behavior and other more spiritual things. Such that the exact
science may be more distinct from the other practices, people came up
with 'astronomy' which comes from the Greek for ‘star-arranging’.
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