How did John Gower define the limits of astrology ?
In the sixteenth century , John Lyly 's 1597 play , " The Woman in the Moon " , is wholly motivated by astrology , while Christopher Marlowe makes astrological references in his plays " Doctor Faustus " and " Tamburlaine " ( both c. 1590 ) , and Sir Philip Sidney refers to astrology at least four times in his romance " The Countess of Pembroke 's Arcadia " ( c. 1580 ) .