Cardano: Book of My Life

Gerolamo CardanoDe: Vita propria, 1576

Gerolamo Cardano or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist writer, and gambler. He became one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance and one of the key figures in the foundation of probability; he introduced the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science.

In 1552 Cardano travelled to Scotland with the Spanish physician William Casanatus, via London,[23] to treat the Archbishop of St Andrews who suffered of a disease that had left him speechless and was thought incurable. The treatment was a success and the diplomat Thomas Randolph recorded that "merry tales" about Cardano's methods were still current in Edinburgh in 1562.[24] Cardano and Casanatus argued over the Archbishop's cure.[25] Cardano wrote that the Archbishop had been short of breath for ten years, and after the cure was effected by his assistant, he was paid 1,400 gold crowns

• In the moments when my spirit was afflicted with the most insupportable grief, I would strike my thighs with rods, or bite my left arm sharp.
• Bonifazio Rodingo, a Doctor of Jurisprudence and a distinguished astrologer;
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• And perhaps it was more hurtful for my calumniators to have been tormented by their own guilty conscience.
• I enjoy swimming a little and fishing very much. I was devoted to the art of angling as long as I remained at Pavia and I am sorry I ever changed.
• in the Italian poets, Petrarch and Luigi Pulci I find great delight.
• The wasting of time is an abomination.
• but the odium of my estate and a desire to escape, which compelled me.
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• Always to set certainties before uncertainties has been a seventh guiding principle;
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• To cure the asthma of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews and brother to James Hamilton, Regent of Scotland.
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• an occasion for going to Scotland was offered me.IS
• For this unfortunate union was the cause of all the calamities
• year 1552 on February 23, I was ready to set out upon my journey, crossing by way of Domo d’Ossola, Sion, Geneva, and Mount Simplon;
• I arrived in Lyons on the 13th of March.
• I went on to Boulogne in France;
• Edinburgh, to the side of the Archbishop, on the 29th of June
• and out of the experiences of travel many books on this subject are published in Italian,
• had merely uttered the gratifying phrase from a general desire to please.
• but at these words that insipid damsel was cast into the limbo of things unregretted and unremembered.