Cardano's Cosmos The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer

Name: Cardano's Cosmos The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
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ISBN: 9780674006706

ISBN-10: 0674006704

ISBN-13: 9780674006706

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anthony Grafton

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Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano's Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologer's extraordinary career and explore the art and discipline of astrology in the hands of a brilliant practitioner. Renaissance astrologers predicted everything from the course of the future of humankind to the risks of a single investment, or even the weather. They analyzed the bodies and characters of countless clients, from rulers to…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



The Master of Time



The Astrologer's Practice



The Prognosticator



The Astrologer



Becoming an Author



Astrologers in Collision



The Astrologer as Political Counselor



Classical Astrology Restored



Rival Disciplines Explored



Cardano on Cardano



The Astrologer as Empiricist


Notes


Bibliography


Index