William E. Burns got his Ph.D. in early modern European history from the University of California at Davis in 1994. The road young scholars travel took him to Kearney, Nebraska, Stillwater, Oklahoma and Los Angeles, California before he settled in the Washington DC area. He now divides his time teaching between GWU and other regional institutions. His many books include An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657-1727 (2002), Science and Technology in Colonial America (2005), and The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective (2016). Recently his scholarly interests have focused on the history of astrology. In addition to several essays and articles on almanacs and popular astrology writing in late seventeenth-century England, this interest has produced an edited reference volume, Astrology Through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present (2018) featuring leading historians of astrology. One of the things that he has found frustrating in exploring the historiography of astrology is the dearth of scholarly work on astrology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a gap he hopes this grant will enable him to contribute to filling.