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, Emeritus, he writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

• * Preface *1. The Master of Time *2. The Astrologer's 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

Cardano's Cosmos provides the pleasures characteristic of Anthony Grafton's 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, Cardano's 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.

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, Emeritus, he writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

• * Preface *1. The Master of Time *2. The Astrologer's 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

Cardano's Cosmos provides the pleasures characteristic of Anthony Grafton's 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, Cardano's 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.

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, Emeritus, he writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

• * Preface *1. The Master of Time *2. The Astrologer's 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

Cardano's Cosmos provides the pleasures characteristic of Anthony Grafton's 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, Cardano's 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.