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Cardan believ'd great states depend
Upon the tip o'th' Bear's tail's end;
That, as she wisk'd it t'wards the Sun,
Strew'd mighty empires up and down;
Which others say must needs be false,
Because your true bears have no tails.

--Hudibras (1663, 1664 and 1678) by Samuel Butler

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Gerolamo Cardano (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, writer, and gambler. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science.

Cardano partially invented and described several mechanical devices including the combination lock, the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft with universal joints, which allows the transmission of rotary motion at various angles and is used in vehicles to this day. He made significant contributions to hypocycloids, published in De proportionibus, in 1570. The generating circles of these hypocycloids were later named Cardano circles or cardanic circles and were used for the construction of the first high-speed printing presses.

Today, he is well known for his achievements in algebra. In his 1545 book Ars Magna, he made the first systematic use of negative numbers in Europe, published with attribution the solutions of other mathematicians for the cubic and quartic equations, and acknowledged the existence of imaginary numbers.

Works

  • De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus, Hieronymus Scotus, Venice, 1536 (on medicine).<ref>1545 edition, Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive.</ref>
  • Practica arithmetice et mensurandi singularis (on mathematics), Io. Antoninus Castellioneus/Bernadino Caluscho, Milan, 1539.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive.</ref>
  • De Consolatione, Libri tres, Hieronymus Scotus, Venice, 1542.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
    • Translation into English by T. Bedingfield (1573).<ref>T. Bedingfield, Cardanus Comforte, T. Marshe, London 1573. Full text (page views) at Hathi Trust.</ref>
  • Libelli duo: De Supplemento Almanach; De Restitutione temporum et motuum coelestium; Item Geniturae LXVII insignes casibus et fortuna, cum expositione, Iohan. Petreius, Norimbergae, 1543.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • De Sapientia, Libri quinque, Iohan. Petreius, Norimbergae, 1544 (with De Consolatione reprint and De Libris Propriis, book I).<ref>Full text (original page views) at Bayerische StaatsBibliothek; De Sapientia at pp. 1-273.</ref>
  • De Immortalitate animorum, Henric Petreius, Nuremberg 1544/Sebastianus Gryphius, Lyons, 1545.<ref>1545 edition, Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • Contradicentium medicorum (on medicine), Hieronymus Scotus, Venetijs, 1545.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • Artis magnae, sive de regulis algebraicis (on algebra: also known as Ars magna), Iohan. Petreius, Nuremberg, 1545.<ref>[1] An electronic copy of his book Ars Magna (in Latin)</ref><ref>Full text (original page views) at Bayerische StaatsBibliothek; another at Internet Archive.</ref>
  • Della Natura de Principii e Regole Musicale, ca 1546 (on music theory: in Italian): posthumously published.<ref>C. Sponius (ed.), Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis opera omnia (Lyons, 1663), IV, pp. 621-end (Google).</ref>
  • De Subtilitate rerum (on natural phenomena), Johann Petreius, Nuremberg, 1550 .<ref>Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive; another at New York Public Libraries. Paris 1550 edition, Michael Fezandat and Robert GranIon (original page views) at Google.</ref>
    • Translation into English by J.M. Forrester (2013).<ref>J.M. Forrester (trans.), The De Subtilitate of Girolamo Cardano (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe 2013).</ref>
  • Metoposcopia libris tredecim, et octingentis faciei humanae eiconibus complexa (on physiognomy), written 1550 (published posthumously by Thomas Jolly, Paris (Lutetiae Parisiorum), 1658).<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • In Cl. Ptolemaei Pelusiensis IIII, De Astrorum judiciis... libros commentaria: cum eiusdem De Genituris libro, Henrichus Petri, Basle, 1554.<ref>1554 edition, Full text (original page views) at Google; from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek/Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum. 1578 Heinrich Petri edition, Basle, at Google.</ref>
  • Geniturarum Exemplar (De Genituris liber, separate printing), Theobaldus Paganus, Lyons, 1555.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • Ars Curandi Parva (written c. 1556).<ref>1564/66 edition, 2 volumes, HenricPetrini, Basel, Full texts at Google, Vol. I, Vol. II.</ref>
  • De Libris propriis (about the books he has written, and his successes in medical work), Gulielmus Rouillius, Leiden, 1557.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • De Rerum varietate, Libri XVII (on natural phenomena); (Revised edition), Matthaeus Vincentius, Avignon 1558.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive. Another at Google.</ref> Also Basle, Henricus Petri, 1559.<ref>D.F. Larder, 'The Editions of Cardanus' "De rerum varietate"', Isis, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring, 1968), pp. 74-77 (JSTOR, open).</ref><ref>1581 Basle edition (original page views) at University and State Library, Düsseldorf.</ref>
  • Actio prima in calumniatorem (reply to J.C. Scaliger), 1557.
  • De Utilitate ex adversis capienda, Libri IIII (on the uses of adversity), Henrich Petri, Basle, 1561.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • Theonoston, seu De Tranquilitate, 1561. (Opera, Vol. II).
  • Somniorum synesiorum omnis generis insomnia explicantes, Libri IIII (Book of Dreams: with other writings), Henricus Petri, Basle 1562.<ref>1582 edition, Full text (original page views) at Hathi Trust.</ref>
  • Neronis encomium (a life of Nero), Basle, 1562.<ref>Full text (John and Cornelius Blaeu, Amsterdam 1640 edition) (original page views) at Google.</ref>
    • Translation into English by A. Paratico (2012).<ref>A. Paratico (trans.), Nero: An Exemplary Life, by Girolamo Cardano (Inkstone publications, Chameleon Press, Hong Kong 2012).</ref>
  • De Providentia ex anni constitutione, Alexander Benaccius, Bononiae, 1563.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive; another at Google.</ref>
  • De Methodo medendi, Paris, In Aedibus Rouillii, 1565.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive. Another at Google.</ref>
  • De Causis, signis ac locis morborum, Liber unus, Alexander Benatius, Bononiae, 1569.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Internet Archive; also in Google.</ref>
  • Commentarii in Hippocratis Coi Prognostica, Opus Divinum; Commentarii De Aere, aquis et locis opus, Henric Petrina Officina, Basel, 1568/1570.<ref>1568 and 1570 editions, Full text (original page views) at Google. 1570 only, at Google; another at Freiburger historische Beistände.</ref>
  • Opus novum, De Proportionibus numerorum, motuum, ponderum, sonorum, aliarumque rerum mensurandarum. Item de aliza regula, Henric Petrina, Basel, 1570.<ref>Full text (original page views) at Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum/Bayerische Staatsbibliothek or at Google.</ref>
  • Opus novum, cunctis De Sanitate tuenda, Libri quattuor, Sebastian HenricPetri, Basle, 1569.<ref>Text (incomplete, original page views) at Google. Franciscus Zannettus, Rome 1580, Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>
  • De Vita propria, 1576 (autobiography).<ref>Full text (page views): Iacobus Villery, Paris 1653, edition at Internet Archive; Amsterdam 1654 edition at Google.</ref>
  • Liber De Ludo aleae ("On Casting the Die"; on probability): posthumously published.<ref>C. Sponius (ed.), Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis opera omnia (Lyons, 1663), I, pp. 262-76 (Internet Archive).</ref><ref>J. Gullberg, Mathematics from the birth of numbers (W.W. Norton & Company, 1997), p. 963. Template:ISBN Template:ISBN</ref>
  • Proxeneta, seu De Prudentia Civili (posthumously published: Paulus Marceau, Geneva, 1630).<ref>Full text (original page views) at Google.</ref>

Collected Works

A chronological key to this edition is supplied by M. Fierz.<ref>M. Fierz (trans. H. Niman), Girolamo Cardano, 1501-1576, Physician, Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, Astrologer and Interpreter of Dreams (Birkhäuser, Boston/Basel/Stuttgart 1983), pp. 32-33 (Google).</ref>

  • Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Opera Omnia, cura Carolii Sponii (Lugduni, Ioannis Antonii Huguetan and Marci Antonii Ravaud, 1663) (10 volumes, Latin):



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