Michael Brooks. The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: A History of the Renaissance Mathematics That Birthed Imaginary Numbers, Probability, and the New Physics of the Universe. 256 pp. Melbourne/London: Scribe Publications, 2017. $26 (cloth); ISBN 9781947534810. Paper and e-book available [Book Review]

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