Cardanos Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Gra

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Cardanos Cosmos by Anthony Grafton This book traces Cardanos career from his first astrological pamphlet through his rise to high-level consulting and his autobiographical works. 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Cardanos Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologers 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 Cardanos 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 Cardanos practices-and the maneuvering that kept him at the top of a world rife with patronage, politics, and vengeful rivals.Cardanos 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. Notes This is a honey of a book, marked by Graftons usual erudition, lucidity, and wit. Above all, it insists on presenting astrology not as an irrational and intellectually questionable activity, but rather as a complicated and well-established body of theory and practice, similar to, say, contemporary medicine. The book situates astrology within the map of the contemporary study of nature (human and otherwise), where it clearly belongs, and rightly emphasizes the complexity and multiplicity of that map. The richness of Cardanos autobiographical writings allows Grafton to follow (at least through Cardanos eyes) the process of his own self-fashioning and the way in which he built a successful career as a high-level practitioner and internationally known man of letters. -- Katherine Park, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Author Biography Anthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote, Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and Inky Fingers, among other books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, he writes regularly for the New York Review of Books. Table of Contents * Preface *1. The Master of Time *2. The Astrologers 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 * Notes * Bibliography * Index Review Cardanos Cosmos provides the pleasures characteristic of Anthony Graftons other books devoted to the intellectual history of early modern Europe: As in Defenders of the Text and New World: Ancient Texts, we are regaled with donnish anecdotes and high-table factoids… Beyond doubt, Grafton is now our leading guide to the history of humane letters and scholarship between the Renaissance and the rise of Romanticism. In the end, Cardanos cosmos is nothing less than a world of wonders… [Grafton] shows us that the 16th-century thinkers found in astrology much of what we now look for in psychology, political theory, moral philosophy and economics—fundamental tools for analyzing and controlling our societies and ourselves. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *In Anthony Graftons open-minded study Cardanos Cosmos, the question of how scientific Girolamo Cardano really was comes up often, giving the book much of its interest… Graftons ambitious book aims to estimate the place of astrology in Renaissance society and perhaps to modify its place in our own. -- Alastair Fowler * Times Literary Supplement *[Cardanos Cosmos] accords Cardano all the respect the crusty Italians industry and intelligence once warranted without question… [The] book delivers satisfaction on all…accounts… The combination of telling detail and intellectual sweep in Cardanos Cosmos is irresistible, and it shapes Graftons book as Cardano once shaped his disparate empirical data into system. We do not accept the system now, but Cardano himself, as his biographer makes movingly clear, still deserves to be heard. -- Ingrid D. Rowland * New York Review of Books *In this eloquent study of a sixteenth-century astrologer who combined mathematics, astronomy, and medicine in counseling people at every level of society, Princeton University historian Grafton offers readers both a microscopic investigation of an individuals mind and a wide-angled survey of the millennial intellectual traditions which nourished it. * Natural History *A fine biography and a feast of intellectual history. * Amazon.com *A fascinating picture of a very complicated man. -- Fernando Q. Gouvea, Mathematical Association of AmericaAn ambitious young man from Milan, life-saving physician, traveler, mathematician, scholar of antiquity, 16th-century academic superstar and victim of the Inquisition, Girolamo Cardano embodied in one life much of what makes the Italian Renaissance fascinating to modern readers. The polymathic and resourceful Grafton places Cardanos life and works at the center of a detailed investigation of Renaissance astrologers, their work, their beliefs, their clients and their impact… Explaining how European readers regarded astrology and its rival arts, Grafton also relates the often ferociously personal intellectual battles that were fought. A writer of superb perspective and clarity, Grafton aims both at other historians and at lay readers. The latter will have to wade through some abstruse detail but will likely find the varied, informative, sometimes bizarre journey more than worth the effort. * Publishers Weekly *This is a honey of a book, marked by Graftons usual erudition, lucidity, and wit. Above all, it insists on presenting astrology not as an irrational and intellectually questionable activity, but rather as a complicated and well-established body of theory and practice, similar to, say, contemporary medicine. The book situates astrology within the map of the contemporary study of nature (human and otherwise), where it clearly belongs, and rightly emphasizes the complexity and multiplicity of that map. The richness of Cardanos autobiographical writings allows Grafton to follow (at least through Cardanos eyes) the process of his own self-fashioning and the way in which he built a successful career as a high-level practitioner and internationally known man of letters. -- Katherine Park, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityGraftons book is an engaging scholarly study of Cardanos work on astrology, and its place in his life and society. * Short Book Reviews * Promotional This is a honey of a book, marked by Graftons usual erudition, lucidity, and wit. Above all, it insists on presenting astrology not as an irrational and intellectually questionable activity, but rather as a complicated and well-established body of theory and practice, similar to, say, contemporary medicine. The book situates astrology within the map of the contemporary study of nature (human and otherwise), where it clearly belongs, and rightly emphasizes the complexity and multiplicity of that map. The richness of Cardanos autobiographical writings allows Grafton to follow (at least through Cardanos eyes) the process of his own self-fashioning and the way in which he built a successful career as a high-level practitioner and internationally known man of letters. -- Katherine Park, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Review Quote This is a honey of a book, marked by Graftons usual erudition, lucidity, and wit. Above all, it insists on presenting astrology not as an irrational and intellectually questionable activity, but rather as a complicated and well-established body of theory and practice, similar to, say, contemporary medicine. The book situates astrology within the map of the contemporary study of nature (human and otherwise), where it clearly belongs, and rightly emphasizes the complexity and multiplicity of that map. The richness of Cardanos autobiographical writings allows Grafton to follow (at least through Cardanos eyes) the process of his own self-fashioning and the way in which he built a successful career as a high-level practitioner and internationally known man of letters. Details ISBN0674006704 Author Anthony Grafton Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674006704 ISBN-13 9780674006706 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2001 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Residence Princeton, US Affiliation Princeton University Short Title CARDANOS COSMOS REV/E Edition Description Revised Pages 304 DOI 10.1604/9780674006706 Illustrations 22 line illustrations UK Release Date 2001-11-15 AU Release Date 2001-11-15 NZ Release Date 2001-11-15 US Release Date 2001-11-15 Publication Date 2001-11-15 DEWEY 133.5092 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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