| Edition |
1st Harvard University press pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index. |
| Note |
"A version of this book was published in German in 1999 by Berlin Verlag as Cardanos Kosmos: Die Welten und Werke eines Renaissance-Astrologen"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
1. The Master of Time -- 2. The Astrologer's Practice -- 3. The Prognosticator -- 4. The Astrologer -- 5. Becoming an Author -- 6. Astrologers in Collision -- 7. The Astrologer as Political Counselor -- 8. Classical Astrology Restored -- 9. Rival Disciplines Explored -- 10. Cardano on Cardano -- 11. The Astrologer as Empiricist. |
| Summary |
"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." "Cardano's astrology, argues Grafton, was a profoundly empirical and highly influential art, one that was integral to the attempts of sixteenth-century scholars to understand their universe and themselves."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576 -- Contributions in astrology.
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Astrology -- History.
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Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576 (OCoLC)fst00018542
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Astrology. (OCoLC)fst00819398
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0674006704 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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9780674006706 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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