Brooks, Michael (Author)
A book of science like no other, about a scientist like no other. This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors and popes. This stubborn and unworldly man was the son of a lawyer and a brothel keeper, but also a gifted physician and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. That is the argument of this charming and intoxicatingly clever book, which is truly original in its style, and in the manner of the modernists embodies in its very form its theories about the world. The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook is a science book with the panache of a novel, for readers of Carlo Rovelli or Umberto Eco. It is a work of and about genius.
...MoreReview Howard G. Barth (2020) Review of "The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 874-875).
Review Howard G. Barth (2020) Review of "The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 874-875).
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Gavagna, Veronica;
(2010)
Medieval Heritage and New Perspectives in Cardano's Practica arithmetice
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Williams, Lambert;
(2005)
Cardano and the Gambler's Habitus
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Cesare S. Maffioli;
(2015)
Not a Limit of Art but of Nature: Cardano and Galileo on the Suction Lift of Water
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Pietro Daniel Omodeo;
(2009)
La cosmologia infinitistica di Giovanni Battista Benedetti
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Chapter
Malet, A.;
(2008)
Just before Viète: Numbers, Polynomials, Demonstrations, and Variables in Simon Stevin's L'arithmétique (1585)
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Book
Giovanni Ferraro;
(2015)
Ricerche di storia della matematica
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Pesic, Peter;
(2010)
Hearing the Irrational: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number
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Article
Zhao, Jiwei;
(2008)
Reconstructing Cardano's Four Special Rules of Quartic Equation: A Discussion on the Paradigms of Research on the History of Mathematics
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Sabine Rommevaux–Tani;
(2016)
Michael Stifel, lecteur de la "Practica arithmetice" de Gerolamo Cardano
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Sara Confalonieri;
(2018)
An Overview on Cardano's "De Regula Aliza"
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Beery, Janet L.;
(2009)
Formulating Figurate Numbers
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Brendan Dooley;
(2008)
Narrazione e verità: don Giovanni de' Medici e Galileo
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Article
Spranzi Zuber, Marta;
(2001)
Rhétorique, dialectique et probabilité au XVIe siècle
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Book
Mariassunta Picardi;
(2019)
Il geroglifico della natura. Filosofia, scienza e magia in John Dee
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Book
Folkerts, Menso;
Kühne, Andreas;
(2006)
Astronomy as a Model for the Sciences in Early Modern Times: Papers from the International Symposium, Munich, 10--12 March 2003
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Article
Laurence Wuidar;
(2009)
L'interdetto della conoscenza: segreti celesti e arcani musicali nel Cinquecento e Seicento
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Jonathan Regier;
(2019)
Reading Cardano with the Roman Inquisition: Astrology, Celestial Physics, and the Force of Heresy
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Craig Martin;
(2022)
Girolamo Cardano’s Meteorological Predictions: Hippocratism, Weather Signs, Winds, and the Limits of Astrology
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Jean-Patrice Boudet;
Laurence Moulinier-Brogi;
(2019)
Miscellanées magico-scientifiques en Italie au Quattrocento: l’exemple du ms. Paris, BnF, it. 1524
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Azzolini, Monica;
(2011)
Refining the Astrologer's Art: Astrological Diagrams in Bodleian MS Canon. Misc. 24 and Cardano's Libelli Quinque (1547)
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