Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study
Waters, W. G. (William George), 1844-1928
English
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JEROME CARDAN
JEROME CARDAN
A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY
BY
W.G. WATERS
"To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man,not caring whether they knew more of him, was a frigid ambition inCardan."—Sir Thomas Browne.
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PREFACE
No attempt is made in the following pages to submit to historicaltreatment the vast and varied mass of printed matter which Cardan left ashis contribution to letters and science, except in the case of those workswhich are, in purpose or incidentally, autobiographical, or of those whichfurnish in themselves effective contributions towards the framing of anestimate of the genius and character of the writer. Neither has it seemedworth while to offer to the public another biography constructed on the
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