The Book of My Life (New York Review Books Classics) - Softcover

Cardano, Girolamo

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ISBN 10: 1590170164 ISBN 13: 9781590170168

Verlag: NYRB Classics, 2002

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A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait―a book to set beside Montaigne's Essays and Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography.

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Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was born in Pavia, Italy. A professor of mathematics at Padua, and of medicine at Pavia and Bologna, he was the the author of more than a hundred books on subjects ranging from the natural sciences to medicine, history, and music.

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• Verlag: NYRB Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1590170164
• ISBN 13: 9781590170168
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320