Using the Heavens
John Bossy: Renaissance Astrology, 1 June 2000
Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
by Anthony Grafton.
Harvard, 284 pp., £21.95, February 2000,0 674 09555 3 Show More
by Anthony Grafton.
Harvard, 284 pp., £21.95, February 2000,
“... and church. Not Queen Elizabeth, who would surely have giggled if anyone had suggested it; not Philip II, who would have been shocked; not even, perhaps, the Emperor Rudolph II, who sat in his high palace in Prague communing with the stars and tried to get John Dee to put him in touch with the heavenly orders. True, there had been Pope Paul III, a ... ”