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

by Anthony Grafton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006704
• ISBN13: 9780674006706
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"