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

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Altersbedingt vergilbt, Einband teilweise besto�n, sonst guter Zustand. Mit Zeitungsrezension / Yellowed due to age, binding partially scuffed, otherwise in good condition. With newspaper review. - 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 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 sixteenthcentury scholars to understand their universe and themselves.