A Daily Telegraph book of the year. This is a landmark in science writing that 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 and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. The Quantum Astrologers Handbook like Jerome has multiple occupations it is at once a biography a history