Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576)
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Obras de Girolamo Cardano
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Cardano, Gerolamo
Cardanus, Hieronymus
Cardan, Jérôme
Cardano, Girolamo
Cardano, Geronimo
Cardan, Girolamo - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1501-09-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1576-09-21
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Italy
- Ocupaciones
- mathematician
physician
astrologer
gambler
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 35
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 360
- Popularidad
- #66,630
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 33
- Idiomas
- 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).… (más)