Glen M. Cooper

I teach history at Claremont McKenna College, where my courses include Middle East, Ancient Greek, Byzantine, Medieval European and South Asian history, and history of science and medicine. I have been interested in Galen since I was but a lad of 11.

Through preparing this Galen volume I have acquired an additional interest in the history of astrology. Ancient astrology was a highly technical scientific subject, requiring a university education to really understand and practice it. Astrology, although today considered a pseudo-science, also was the greatest motivator for the development of technical and mathematical astronomy through the ages. So, officially I am an historian of astronomy and medicine, but I am also in historian of astrology and astrological medicine. (I was tempted to say that I "moonlight" as an historian of astrology, but let's not mix metaphors!)