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Cardan
Cardan
Cardan
Cardan (Jerome), was born in Pavia in 1501,
of a mother who had it from a lover tried
in vain to lose its fruit by breuva
ges. He came into the world with black hair
and curly. Nature gave him a spirit
penetrating, accompanied by a beautiful character
less happy shot. Weird, fickle,
opinialre, he pricked himself, like Socrates, to have a familiar demon, but his
dice
My , if he had one , was less wise than
that of the Greek philosopher. Cardan had the
approach, as well as the words and fan silences of a fool. After reporting his
madness as much as his knowledge in the mede
cine and mathematics in Padua, in Mi
Lan, in Pavia, in Bologna, he was put in
prison in the latter city. As soon as he
having regained his release, he ran to Rome;
obtained a pension from the pope, and left himself there.
to die of hunger in 1576 to accomplish his
horoscope. He had promised not to live
up to the age of 75; he wanted to hold his
word. we time. He perfected the thevary
problems of the third degree graces
in the lights of Tratalea, famous mathé
matician, of which he attributed to himself the discovery
you in real plagiarist. The science of astro
Judicial logy bursts into all its treaties
Astronomical. It was he who failed in
in recent centuries the taste of phi studies
losophics and secrets of the cabal and the
cabalists, who put themselves in touch
with this multitude of spirits that fill
feels the world and to whom one can become similar by purifying oneself through
abstinence
and certain practices.