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John Tenniel's illustration from the 1884 edition of Aesop's Fables.

"The Astrologer who Fell into a Well" is a fable based on a Greek anecdote concerning the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales of Miletus. It was one of several ancient jokes that were absorbed into Aesop's Fables and is now numbered 40 in the Perry Index.[1] During the scientific attack on astrology in the 16th–17th centuries, the story again became very popular.

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