Buch Details
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.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Grafton, Anthony
- ISBN13 9780674006706
- ISBN10 0674006704
- Buchseiten 284
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2001
- Sprache Englisch
Cardano's cosmos (The worlds and works of a renaissance astrologer)
- Autor/in Anthony Grafton
- Verlag HARVARD
- ISBN 9780674006706
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