The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook
$31.15
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2017
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925322408 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925322408 |
| Author: | Michael Brooks |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 146mm x 209mm |
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Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New Scientist and writes weekly for the New Statesman. He is the author of At The Edge of Uncertainty, The Secret Anarchy of Science, and the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, THE, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as many magazines. He has lectured at NYU, the American Museum of Natural History, and the University of Cambridge, amongst others.
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