Cardano, Girolamo

Less than half a century after Balboa had stood silent on a peak in Darien, facing the unknown ocean, a famous Italian scholar and poet, Julius Caesar Scaliger, or della Scala, recorded the presence there of an unknown noble metal. In 1557 he made what is probably the first definite allusion to platinum. Girolamo Cardano (1501—1576), in his well-known work On Subtlety, had defined a metal as a substance which... 

Nancy Siraisi, The Clock and the Mirror Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine (Princeton,... 

Laurinda Dixon, Perilous Chastity Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine (Ithaca, NY, 1995) King, Hippocrates Woman, ch. lo Nancy Siraisi, Girolamo Cardano and the Art of Medical Narrative , Journal of the History of Ideas, 52 (1991), 581-602. On medical cases in a legal context see esp. Pomata, Contractinga Cure. 

Girolamo Cardano and the Art of Medical Narrative , Journal of the History of... 

For a study of the role of ancient texts in the practice of Renaissance astrologer Girolamo Cardano, see Anthony Grafton, Cardano s Cosmos The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1999). 

Niccolo Fontana, nicknamed II Tartaglia "the stutterer" (1499-1557). Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576). 

When Vasco returned, he found me at my side of the big desk behind a pile of every book on cryptography in the Maestro s library—Roger Bacon, Johannes Trithemius, Girolamo Cardano, Leon Battista Alberti, Giovani Porta, Blaise de Vigenere. Al-Kindi was there, too, but I can t read Arabic. Needless to say, I had made small progress with those I could read. 

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