THE QUANTUM ASTROLOGER'S HANDBOOK

A science reference like no other, Brooks tells the story of the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century who was a gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors, and popes--but also a gifted physician and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics.