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Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer Paperback / softback - 2001
by Anthony Grafton
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- Title Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
- Author Anthony Grafton
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-11-15
- Features Bibliography, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780674006706
- ISBN 9780674006706 / 0674006704
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.64 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.63 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Astrology - History, Cardano, Girolamo - Contributions in
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.509
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From the jacket flap
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 criminals, and enjoyed widespread respect and patronage. This book traces Cardano's contentious career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his remarkable autobiographical works. Delving into astrological principles and practices, Grafton shows how Cardano and his contemporaries adapted the ancient art for publication and marketing in a new era of print media and changing science. He maps the context of market and human forces that shaped Cardano's practices -- and the maneuvering that kept him at the top of a world rife with patronage, politics, and vengeful rivals.
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.