Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576)
Forfatter af The Book of My Life
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Værker af Girolamo Cardano
Cardanus comforte, translated into Englishe. And published by commaundement of the righte Honourable the Earle of… 3 eksemplarer
El libro de los sue©łos : interpretaci©đn sinesiana de todos los g©♭neros de sue©łos (1999) 3 eksemplarer
In Cl. Ptolemaei Pelusiensis 111 de Astrorum Iudicijs, aut, vt vulgo vocant, Quadripartite Constructionis libros… 2 eksemplarer
De utilitate ex adversis capienda libri IV 2 eksemplarer
De Subtilitate Rerum (On the subtlety of things) 1 eksemplar
The First Book of Jerome Cardan's De Subtilitate 1 eksemplar
L'autobiografia 1 eksemplar
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- Cardano, Gerolamo
Cardanus, Hieronymus
Cardan, Jérôme
Cardano, Girolamo
Cardano, Geronimo
Cardan, Girolamo - Fødselsdato
- 1501-09-24
- Dødsdag
- 1576-09-21
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Italy
- Erhverv
- mathematician
physician
astrologer
gambler
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A short introduction to Gambling. I was more interested to know about Probabilities, it gives a basic introduction on gambling. He talks about dices and cards.
"Play is very good test of man's patience or impatience."
Deus Vult
-- Gottfried
"Play is very good test of man's patience or impatience."
Deus Vult
-- Gottfried
A short introduction to Gambling. I was more interested to know about Probabilities, it gives a basic introduction on gambling. He talks about dices and cards.
"Play is very good test of man's patience or impatience."
Deus Vult
-- Gottfried
"Play is very good test of man's patience or impatience."
Deus Vult
-- Gottfried
Interesting account of a 16th c Italian life.....but he's no Montaigne.
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- Værker
- 35
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 360
- Popularitet
- #66,630
- Vurdering
- 3.5
- Anmeldelser
- 7
- ISBN
- 33
- Sprog
- 6
Cardano flops between being quite personable and almost mad, always retaining a certain eccentricity.
Several sections are dedicated to visions (spectral chains floating in varied shapes around his bed), omens (loud bangs, mysterious animal noises), and other oddities (amnesia-inducing jewelry) which are variously treated according to Cardano's mood; others are dedicated to disparaging Cardano's professional rivals, clearing his own good name, and bemoaning his son's missteps. Cardano boasts of his spectacular feats of memory and rhetoric; describes each book he has written, each skill he has mastered, and each patient he has cured; lists each time another person has mentioned him in one of their books (lists are provided for positive and for negative mentions); and describes each time he has managed to avoid falling pieces of masonry through a strange unconscious foresight. And he always makes sure to inject some humanist proverb or aphorism into his treatment of a subject (with about as good a hit rate as Sancho Panza).… (mere)