ermetikon

Anglican scholarly encyclopedic occult medicine

Robert Burton

1577 – 1640

Robert Burton was an Oxford scholar and Anglican clergyman whose monumental The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) surveyed the causes, symptoms, and cures of melancholy with encyclopedic breadth, drawing on astrology, demonology, magic, and classical philosophy alongside medicine. Revised through five editions during his lifetime, it remains one of the richest repositories of early modern esoteric and psychological thought.

astrologyDreams and unconscious processesRenaissance HumanismRenaissance OccultismNatural PhilosophyRenaissance Humanism / Early Modern Psychologyritual documentationMoral philosophy and ethicsfolk belief documentationdream interpretation

Works in the Archive1 volume

Anatomy of Melancholy

Anatomy of Melancholy

1621

Advanced

Related Authors

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim1486–1535Renaissance occult philosophy and ceremonial magicJames H. Leuba1868–1946Psychology of religion and skeptical naturalism

Astrology Paths

These hubs connect Robert Burton to the broader astrology tools and reference pages.

Astrology Hub

Browse Hermetikon's classical astrology tools and reference pages.

Astrology Today

See the current sky, planetary condition, and live celestial context.

Placement Meanings

Read planet-in-sign and planet-in-house pages with archive citations.

Planetary Returns

Open the return calculators for the seven classical planets.

Retrograde Calendars

Track retrograde cycles and their traditional delineations.

Ask the Hermetikon Archivist about Burton

The AI can search across all works and retrieve direct quotations with page references.

Ask the Archivist