Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576)
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Opere di Girolamo Cardano
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Cardano, Gerolamo
Cardanus, Hieronymus
Cardan, Jérôme
Cardano, Girolamo
Cardano, Geronimo
Cardan, Girolamo - Data di nascita
- 1501-09-24
- Data di morte
- 1576-09-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Italy
- Attività lavorative
- mathematician
physician
astrologer
gambler
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 358
- Popolarità
- #66,978
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 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).… (altro)