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Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer

Anthony Grafton

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
On one level, this is a readable exposition of how Cardano worked and thought as a practicing astrologer, including extensive background on the sophisticated and ancient astrological tradition he came out of, with some glances at how that connected to his practice as a medical doctor and a mathematician (though there's less about the latter than I would have liked).

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.