Jerome Cardan: The Life of Girolamo Cardano, of Milan, Physician, Volume 1 |
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Page 124 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 98 - In contemplating the characters of the eminent persons who appeared about this era, nothing is more interesting and instructive than to remark the astonishing combination, in the same minds of the highest intellectual endowments, with the most deplorable aberrations of the understanding ; and even, in numberless instances, with the most childish superstitions of the multitude.
Page 261 - ... through Milan of having discovered some new rules in algebra. But take notice, that if you break your faith with me, I shall certainly keep my word with you ; nay, I even assure you to do more than I promised.
Page 210 - ... necessary for all sortes of men. Geometries verdicte. All fresshe fine wittes by me are filed All grosse dull wittes wishe me exiled : Thoughe no mannes witte reject will I, Yet as they be, I wyll them...
Page iv - ... carried their research farther than the perusal of a work or two. Commonly they have been content with a reading of his book on his own Life, which is no autobiography, but rather a garrulous disquisition upon himself, written by an old man when his mind was affected by much recent sorrow. In that work Cardan reckoned that he had published one hundred and thirty-one books, and that he was leaving behind him in manuscript one hundred and eleven. It is only by a steady search among his extant works,...
Page 209 - Recorde in 1558, but rather what he calls the "sodaine unquietnesse " of the time. There is something appealing in the abrupt ending of his book. An abstruse discussion of universal roots is suddently thus interrupted. Master. You saie truth. But harke, what meaneth that hastie knockyng at the doore? Scholar. It is a messenger. Master. What is the message? Tel me in mine eare. Yea, sir, is that the matter? Then is there no remedie, but that I must neglect all studies and teaching, for to withstande...
Page 33 - As remarked by Jerome Cardan's latest biographer — and Cardan is certainly himself a memorable example in point — the physical life of a man cannot be dissociated fairly from his intellectual and moral life, when we attempt to judge him by the story of his actions. " The day may come when somebody shall teach us how to estimate the sum of human kindness that proceeds from good digestion and a pure state of the blood — the disputes and jealousies that owe their rise entirely to the liver of...
Page 251 - Et cotal somma, sara il tuo concetto: El terzo, poi de questi nostri conti, Se solue col secondo, se ben guardi Che per natura son quasi congionti. Questi trouai, et non con passi tardi Nel mille cinquecent' e quattro e trenta; Con fondamenti ben saldi, e gagliardi. Nella Citta dal mär' intorno centa *). Der scheinbare Widerspruch gegen die frühere Datumsangabe des 12.
Page v - ... would suppose, I say, that such a man was at the same time one of the profoundest and most fertile geniuses that Italy has produced, and that he made rare and precious discoveries in mathematics and in medicine?
Page 275 - A work, laying down rules for all forms and x* + c = bx, \ varieties of cubic equations, having all their terms, or wanting any of them, and having all possible varieties of signs ; demonstrating...