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apart in the sky, goes back to the Chaldeans; it was used by the Zoroastrians, and then by Arabic astronomers and astrologers. In Middle Persian, its head and tail were respectively called gozihr sar and gozihr dumb; in Arabic, al-ra's al-jawzihr and al-dhanab al-jawzihr -- or in the case of the Moon, ___ al-tennin. Among the arguments against astrologers made by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292-1350), in his Miftah Dar al-SaCadah: "Why is it that

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