Jerome Cardan: Doctor, Astrologer, Mathematician, Gambler – Bernard Eccles
June 23 @ 18:00 – 20:30 BST
18:00 Chart Discussion
18:45 Tea Break
19:00 Jerome Cardan: Doctor, Astrologer, Mathematician, Gambler: Bernard Eccles
Jerome Cardan (1501-76) was a Renaissance polymath who could apparently do everything. Famed throughout Europe for his medical skills, he was summoned to Scotland in 1552 to treat the Archbishop of St Andrews (successfully) and met the young king Edward VI of England, for whom he drew a horoscope and predicted a bright future (not so successfully: the king died the following year). He made huge advances in algebra, invented mechanical devices that still bear his name today, and was the first to work out the odds in games of chance. He fell foul of the Inquisition for publishing a horoscope of Christ, yet managed to end his days living on a pension provided by the Pope! This talk looks at his life through his own horoscope, and at some of his most famous – and infamous – charts.
Bernard Eccles
Bernard Eccles has been writing, teaching and lecturing about astrology for over forty years. He was President of the Astrological Lodge of London twice in the 1980s, won the Astrological Association’s Charles Harvey award in 2011, and is a regular guest lecturer at the Faculty of Astrological Studies Summer School at Oxford. His magazine horoscope columns appear in eight different languages around the world.
