The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Un

by Michael Brooks

Book Overview

This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century.

Who is Jerome Cardano? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and schemer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors, and popes. This stubborn and unworldly man was the son of a lawyer and a brothel keeper, but also a gifted physician and the unacknowledged discoverer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950354644
• ISBN13: 9781950354641
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Scribe Us
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.6"