How we view astrology is a good example of how our racial/ethnic imaginations and imagined 'heritage' distort the record. For people like Newton and Copernicus

How we view astrology is a good example of how our racial/ethnic imaginations and imagined 'heritage' distort the record. For people like Newton and Copernicus their obsessions with alchemy and astrology are sidelined/excused/footnotes that are charming as we offset it against their scientific contributions, while Arabic, Egyptian, Babylonian and other sources are dismissed because they "were only doing it for astrology" and couldn't have known/understood the 'real' science/scientific value of their work.